🇮🇳Hindi Source WordCode: HI

छिद्रित

Pronunciation / Transliteration: chhidrit

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Perforated/ˈpɜːr.fəˌreɪ.tɪd/
adjectiveverbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇮🇳 Example Sentence in Hindi:

"यह कागज़ छिद्रित है।"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Pierced with a hole or holes; having a series of small holes or slots punched through it, often to facilitate tearing along a line.

    "The notebook featured perforated pages that could be easily and cleanly torn out."
  2. 2

    In biology and medicine, having apertures, pores, or ruptured tissues, such as a perforated eardrum.

    "The physician diagnosed him with a perforated ulcer requiring immediate medical intervention."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin verb perforare, composed of per- (through) and forare (to bore or pierce). Entering the English language in the late 15th century from Late Latin, the term originally denoted physical piercing before expanding into mechanical and biological contexts to describe materials punctured with a series of small holes.

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