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Shooting

noun

1.

The act of firing a projectile. Synonym: shot.

2.

Killing someone by gunfire.

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.

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"Shooting" Quotes from Famous Books

... insane frenzy, he rushed into Gould's office the afternoon the Directors announced the passing of the dividend, and told Gould that he had been deliberately and grossly deceived and that he was ruined. He wound up by announcing his intention of shooting Gould then and there. ...

— Great Fortunes from Railroads • Gustavus Myers

... laughed Feng Tzu-ying, "on which I wounded lieutenant-colonel Ch'ou's son, I've borne the lesson in mind, and never lost my temper. So how is it you say that I've again been boxing? This thing on my face was caused, when I was out shooting the other day on the T'ieh Wang hills, by a flap from the ...

— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin

... now purely defensive and evasive. There were five people aboard the aero-hydroplane, and they were desperate persons. He was not surprised when an object same shooting downwards from the Drifter. It struck one of the plane wires and ...

— Dave Dashaway and his Hydroplane • Roy Rockwood

... sickening, yawning gash, more than twelve inches long, almost laying bare the very bone. I was very cool and steady, and did not feel in the least degree nervous, having fortunately great confidence in my own shooting; but I must confess, when the whole affair was over, I felt that it was a very awful situation, and attended with extreme peril, as I had no friend with me ...

— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. • Various

... into a potato and make Saratoga-chips of you! The next to consider," he added more mildly, "is the Shaggy Man. As he owns the Love Magnet, I think I'll transform him into a dove, and then we can practice shooting at him with Tik-Tok's gun. Now, this is a very interesting ceremony and I beg you all to watch me closely and see that I've nothing ...

— Tik-Tok of Oz • L. Frank Baum

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