punch
/pʌnt͡ʃ/ verb B2- To strike with one's fist. · If she punches me, I'm gonna break her nose.
- To herd (cattle) as a cowboy.
- To operate (a device or system) by depressing a button, key, bar, or pedal, or by similar means.
- To enter (information) on a device or system.
- To hit (a ball or similar object) with less than full force. · He punched a hit into shallow left field.
- To make holes in something (rail ticket, leather belt, etc) (see also the verb under Etymology 2).
- To thrust against; to poke. · to punch one with the end of a stick or the elbow
- To perform pigeage: to stamp down grape skins that float to the surface during fermentation.
He/she/it punches · Past punched · Past participle punched · -ing form punching
Verb forms
- Base form
- punch
- He/she/it
- punches
- Past
- punched
- Past participle
- punched
- -ing form
- punching
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
With his elbows on the table he sat between the two empty bottles, while spectres danced in the light of the unsnuffed candle—spectres such as Hoffmann strews over his punch-drenched pages, like black, fantastic dust.
“Same as if he had a bone in his throat,” said the Gryphon: and it set to work shaking him and punching him in the back.
“This must be very flattering to the feelings of the rabbits into whose heads he has thrust pins, to the fowls whose bones he has dyed red, and to the dogs whose spinal marrow he has punched out?”
Other matches
- punch A hit or strike with one's fist. B2
- punch To employ a punch to create a hole in or stamp ... C2
- punch Any of various riodinid butterflies of the genu... C2
- punch A beverage, generally containing a mixture of f... C2
- punch A device, generally slender and round, used for... C2
- punch down To attack or target a group that is weaker or o...
- punch in To enter a workplace by punching a timecard.
- punch out To repeatedly hit a person.
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