Usually means: Causing rupture or hole formation.
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  1. perforative: Collins English Dictionary
  2. perforative: Wordnik
  3. perforative: Wiktionary
  4. perforative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  5. Perforative, perforative: Dictionary.com
  6. Perforative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. perforative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Perforative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. perforative: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. perforative: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Perforative: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. perforative: Legal dictionary

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  1. perforative: Encyclopedia

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  1. perforative: Medical dictionary

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▸ adjective:  (dated) Having the power to perforate or pierce; piercing.

Similar:
perforable, penetrant, penetrative, penetrating, pierceable, boring, penetrable, pervious, punchable, puncturable, more...

Opposite:
imperforate, solid, unbroken, uninterrupted

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Similar:
perforable, penetrant, penetrative, penetrating, pierceable, boring, penetrable, pervious, punchable, puncturable, more...

Opposite:
imperforate, solid, unbroken, uninterrupted



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