0 past simple and past participle of punch
1 to hit someone or something with your fist (= closed hand):
He punched him in the stomach.
2 to make a hole in something with a special piece of equipment:
He was punched in the face.
The boys in the cartoon were punching each other - wham, zap!
He punched me on the nose.
She punched her pillow in frustration.
Data were systematically taken from the clinic notes, coded and transferred to punched cards for analysis.
Two 1.27-cm holes punched in the paper determined stimulus size.
The modernist tool of contrast is not used: windows are not violently punched into the facade plane.
