Empty
Puncture
Puncture verb - To make a hole or series of holes in.
Empty and puncture are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Empty" instead a verb "Puncture".
Nearby Words: punctured, puncturing
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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The title critters in Fiend Without a Face puncture people's skulls and slurp out their brains and spinal cords "like an egg," leaving behind the empty-headed corpses.
Source: Picky People Eater - Point of fact: The bullet did not puncture his lung, only the pleural space (the empty space in the chest not taken up by organs and such).
Source: Series / In Plain Sight
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Puncture and Empty. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/empty/puncture
Empty & Puncture. N.p., 2016. Web. 07 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/empty/puncture>.
Puncture or Empty. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/empty/puncture.
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