Shoot Meaning and Definition

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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Shoot in Other Languages...

Spanish: Disparar

German: Schießen

French: Tir

Italian: Sparare

Turkish: çekim