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punch

/pʌnt͡ʃ/ noun B2
  1. A hit or strike with one's fist. (countable)
  2. Power, strength, energy. (uncountable) · The tornado is finally losing its punch.
  3. Impact. (uncountable)

Plural punches

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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.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 87 · C1
I believe he thrusts pins through the heads of rabbits, he makes fowls eat madder, and punches the spinal marrow out of dogs with whalebone.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 727 · C1

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