punch
Forms
- Plural
- punches
- present (v1)
- punch
- past (v2)
- punched
- past participle (v3)
- punched
- present participle
- punching
- 3rd person singular
- punches
Definitions
1.A hit or strike with one's fist.
- Another Karadeniz cross led to Cudicini's first save of the night, with the Spurs keeper making up for a weak punch by brilliantly pushing away Christian Noboa's snap-shot.
2.Power, strength, energy.
- The tornado is finally losing its punch.
- Nixon inadvertently took most of the punch out of the Red Scare by trekking to Peking and Moscow.
- The theorizing often lacks punch and tightness, and that is because Kleinberg is unresolved about how to think about the facts, unsure which are the relevant facts, unsure that thinking itself will be liberating for him.
3.Impact.
- Has your ad copy plenty of punch?
4.A device, generally slender and round, used for creating holes in thin material, for driving an object through a hole in a containing object, or to stamp or emboss a mark or design on a surface.
1.To strike with one's fist.
- If she punches me, I'm gonna break her nose.
2.To operate (a device or system) by depressing a button, key, bar, or pedal, or by similar means.
- As night watchman he was required to punch a watchman's clock; the stations were scattered all over the place.
- The patrol clock and punch key system made sure that crewmen completed their patrols. At the far end of his patrol, he used a key to punch his clock and start the return trip.
3.To enter (information) on a device or system.
4.To hit (a ball or similar object) with less than full force.
- He punched a hit into shallow left field.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4196
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Middle English punchen, partially from Old French ponchonner (“to punch”), from ponchon (“pointed tool”), from Latin punctio, from punctus, perfect passive participle of pungō (“I prick”); and partially from Middle English punchen, a syncopated variant of punischen ("to punish"; see punish).