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Punch Line
- noun -
- the point of a joke or humorous story
Puncturing
- verb - be pierced or punctured; "The tire punctured"
- cause to lose air pressure or collapse by piercing; "puncture an air balloon"
- make by piercing; "puncture a hole"
- pierce with a pointed object; make a hole into; "puncture a tire"
- reduce or lessen the size or importance of; "The bad review of his work deflated his self-confidence"
Purchasing
- verb - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; "She buys for the big department store"
- the act of buying; "buying and selling fill their days"; "shrewd purchasing requires considerable knowledge"
Purloining
- verb - make off with belongings of others
Purporting
- verb - have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming; "The letter purports to express people's opinion"
- propose or intend;
Putrefying
- verb - become putrid; decay with an offensive smell; "organic matter putrefies"
Putrescine
- noun - a colorless crystalline ptomaine with a foul odor that is produced in decaying animal matter
Pyocyanins
- noun - a toxic blue crystalline antibiotic found in green pus
Pyramiding
- noun - a fraudulent business practice involving some form of pyramid scheme e.g., the chain of distribution is artificially expanded by an excessive number of distributors selling to other distributors at progressively higher wholesale prices until retail prices are unnecessarily inflated
Pyrethrine
- - An alkaloid extracted from the root of the pellitory of Spain (Anacyclus pyrethrum).