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Shoot

verb

(past & past part. shot; pres. part. shooting)

1.

Hit with a missile from a weapon. Synonyms: hit, pip.

2.

Kill by firing a missile. Synonym: pip.

3.

Fire a shot. Synonym: blast.

4.

Make a film or photograph of something. Synonyms: film, take. "Shoot a movie"

5.

Send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly.

6.

Run or move very quickly or hastily. Synonyms: dart, dash, flash, scoot, scud.

7.

Move quickly and violently. Synonyms: buck, charge, shoot down, tear. "He came charging into my office"

8.

Throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective. "Shoot a golf ball"

9.

Record on photographic film. Synonyms: photograph, snap. "She snapped a picture of the President"

10.

Emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully.

11.

Cause a sharp and sudden pain in.

12.

Force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing. Synonym: inject.

13.

Variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors.

14.

Throw dice, as in a crap game.

15.

Spend frivolously and unwisely. Synonyms: dissipate, fool, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away.

16.

Score. "Shoot a goal"

17.

Utter fast and forcefully.

18.

Measure the altitude of by using a sextant.

19.

Produce buds, branches, or germinate. Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, sprout, spud.

20.

Give an injection to. Synonym: inject.

noun

1.

A new branch.

2.

The act of shooting at targets.

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... case to slip noiselessly out of the niche, hide about fifty paces away, among the rocks, and from there watch the exit of the Sudanese and Bedouins. He thought that if they awakened and observed his absence they would rush out of the cave together but at that time he could with two bullets shoot down the first two and, before the others could reach him, the rifle could be reloaded. Chamis would remain but he could take ...

— In Desert and Wilderness • Henryk Sienkiewicz

... Pine Creek I confided to the men-folk that I was feeling a little nervous. "Supposing that telegraphing bush-whacker decides to shoot me off-hand on my arrival," I said; and the Man-in-Charge said amiably: "It'll be brought in as justifiable homicide; that's all." Then reconnoitring the enemy from the platform, he "feared" we were ...

— We of the Never-Never • Jeanie "Mrs. Aeneas" Gunn

... transferred to No. 6 Company. Lieutenant Moss was appointed musketry instructor, and J. Smith, from the school of musketry, sergeant-instructor. This was a change, but we all knew we must be taught to shoot and understand everything in connection with the rifle. A lecture-room was fitted up and furnished, and two companies were struck off duty in order ...

— A Soldier's Life - Being the Personal Reminiscences of Edwin G. Rundle • Edwin G. Rundle

... their enemies, this foreign soldier warned a high-spirited and gallant nation that he was come to restore Louis XVI. to his authority, and threatened to treat as rebellious any town that opposed his march, to shoot all persons taken with arms in their hands, and in the event of any insult being offered to the royal family to take exemplary and memorable vengeance by delivering up the city of Paris to military execution and complete demolition. ...

— The Story of Paris • Thomas Okey

... gleam of comprehension in his glance. "So you've come to that frame of mind, have you? Why does a man go on and shoot five hundred pheasants, when he can eat ...

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