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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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"Shoot" Quotes from Famous Books

... dust of battle that it attracts a pair of hen harriers, the pride of the instructed laird, and the special hatred of his head keeper. Saunders Tod would shoot them if he thought that the laird would not find out, and come down on him for doing it. He hates the "Blue Gled" with a deep and enduring hatred, and also the brown female, which he calls the "Ringtail." The Blue ...

— Bog-Myrtle and Peat - Tales Chiefly Of Galloway Gathered From The Years 1889 To 1895 • S.R. Crockett

... shoot awfully well," said Jill apologetically. "I'd sooner, if you don't mind, Tom, walk about on the roof, or help you let the water ...

— Roger Ingleton, Minor • Talbot Baines Reed

... I managed to shoot a covert look at Mr. Pless. He was gazing at the half-hidden box with a perfectly impassive face, and yet I knew that there was a smile about ...

— A Fool and His Money • George Barr McCutcheon

... immediately seized by the enemy and ordered to be shot. He was placed upright against a wall and was about to be riddled with bullets when his employer rushed up and told the Germans that they were going to shoot a Dutchman, which saved ...

— Paris War Days - Diary of an American • Charles Inman Barnard

... going his daily round now entered the ward with a look of sympathy in his kindly face, and as he glanced at the careworn creature seated in a corner, felt a sudden pang shoot through his generous heart. ...

— Marguerite Verne • Agatha Armour

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