Definition of "puncturing"

That the Beatles had not yet found out remained a hallucination with Brian, despite grins exchanged behind his back, and despite John Lennon's occasional brutal puncturings of the masquerade.

2011, Philip Norman, Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation

We have various events or processes, therefore: cuttings, kickings, humiliatings, panickings, puncturings, smashings, blowings, and swellings. These are the things that really go on in the world and causation is perhaps just a label […]

2013, Stephen Mumford, ‎Rani Lill Anjum, Causation: A Very Short Introduction (page 76)