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percer — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • arrive verb To reach a place after travelling.
  • bore verb To make someone feel uninterested and tired through dullness.
  • drill verb To make a hole in something using a rotating cutting tool.
  • pierce verb To make a hole through something, usually with something sharp.

Senses

percer is used for these senses in English:

  • arrive (intransitive) To obtain a level of success or fame; to succeed.
  • bore (intransitive) To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.
  • break through (intransitive) To gain popularity.
  • drill (transitive) To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).
  • pierce (transitive) To puncture; to break through.
  • pierce (transitive) to break or interrupt abruptly

arrive — full definition

  1. verb To reach a place after travelling.
  2. verb To reach a certain moment, stage, or level of success.

bore — full definition

  1. verb To make someone feel uninterested and tired through dullness.
  2. verb To drill a hole through something.
  3. noun A person or thing that is dull and uninteresting.
  4. noun The inner diameter of a tube or gun barrel.

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