Shoot Meaning and Definition
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Word: Shoot
How to pronounce: ʃuːt
Verb
Definitions:
1. Kill or wound (a person or animal) with a bullet or arrow.
Example sentences: "He was shot in the leg during an armed robbery"
2. Move suddenly and rapidly in a particular direction.
Example sentences: "The car shot forward"
3. (in soccer, hockey, basketball, etc.) kick, hit, or throw the ball or puck in an attempt to score a goal.
Example sentences: "Williams twice shot wide"
4. Film or photograph (a scene, film, etc.)
Example sentences: "She has just been commissioned to shoot a video"
5. (of a plant or seed) send out buds or shoots; germinate.
Example sentences: "Some years one or other plant fails to shoot"
6. Inject oneself or another person with (a narcotic drug)
7. Plane (the edge of a board) accurately.
Example sentences: "I shot the longer edge down on the planer"
Noun
Definitions:
1. A young branch or sucker springing from the main stock of a tree or other plant.
Example sentences: "He nipped off the new shoots that grew where the leaves joined the stems"
2. An occasion when a group of people hunt and shoot game for sport.
Example sentences: "A grouse shoot"
3. An occasion when a professional photographer takes photographs or when a film or video is being made.
Example sentences: "A photo shoot"
4. Variant spelling of chute
5. A rapid in a stream.
Example sentences: "Follow the portages that skirt all nine shoots of whitewater"
Exclamation
Definitions:
1. Used as a euphemism for ‘shit’
Synonyms:
a shot
filming
shot
film
firing
gun
rocket
drive
shoot dead
shoot down
sprout
elopement
fire
blaze
zip
germinate
take
will remove
prick
throw
hurl
cast
rush
go off
run
fly
hit
snap
rip
shoot at
photo
photograph
blow
bomb
blast
breeze
release
issue
pop
race
whirl
jump
dash
pelt
trot
chase
discharge
outgrowth
offshoot
send
expel
crack
loose
Derivations:
shooting
shooter
shooed
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Spanish: Disparar
German: Schießen
French: Tir
Italian: Sparare
Turkish: çekim