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perforate

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of PERFORATE

to make a hole or series of holes in <he perforated the sheet with his pencil and put it in his binder>

Synonyms bore, drill, hole, pierce, punch, puncture, riddle

Related Words broach, tap; poke, prick, prickle; penetrate; burrow (into), excavate, gouge, groove, hollow; break, cut, gash, notch, rend, rupture, slash, slit, split

Near Antonyms fill, patch, plug, seal

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