Definition of "perforating" [perforating]

• Present participle of perforate. (verb)

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• "The railway works were extraordinary in perforating and climbing the Alleghanies."
• "If it extends completely through an organ, it is referred to as a perforating, or transfixing, wound."
• "The clinical importance of spina bifida occulta lies in the fact that it is sometimes associated with congenital club-foot, and with nerve symptoms, in the form of sensory, motor, and trophic disturbances referable to the lower limbs, such as perforating ulcer, and to the sphincters."