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| 1. | [ verb ] (arms) hit with a missile from a weapon | |
| Synonyms: | hit pip | |
| Related terms: | injure grass gun_down kneecap strike shot | |
| 2. | [ verb ] (arms) kill by firing a missile | |
| Synonyms: | pip | |
| Related terms: | kill pick_off flight shot | |
| 3. | [ verb ] (arms) fire a shot | |
| Related terms: | fire open_fire pump blaze_away overshoot outshoot sharpshoot gun shot | |
| 4. | [ verb ] (photography,film) make a film or photograph of something | |
| Synonyms: | take film | |
| Examples: | "take a scene" "shoot a movie" |
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| Related terms: | record reshoot movie photograph movie film filming | |
| 5. | [ verb ] run or move very quickly or hastily | |
| Synonyms: | dash scoot flash scud dart | |
| Examples: | "She dashed into the yard" |
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| Related terms: | rush plunge cut_back tear dash scooter motor_scooter iceboat dart | |
| 6. | [ verb ] send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly | |
| Examples: | "shoot a glance" |
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| Related terms: | project | |
| 7. | [ verb ] move quickly and violently | |
| Synonyms: | charge tear shoot_down buck | |
| Examples: | "The car tore down the street" "He came charging into my office" |
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| Related terms: | rush rip shoot_up dart | |
| 8. | [ verb ] (photography) record on photographic film | |
| Synonyms: | photograph snap | |
| Examples: | "I photographed the scene of the accident" "She snapped a picture of the President" |
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| Related terms: | record retake x-ray photography film photograph photographer | |
| 9. | [ verb ] (sport) throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective | |
| Examples: | "shoot craps" "shoot a golf ball" |
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| Related terms: | hit birdie bogey double_bogey knuckle carom break double_birdie chip dunk shooter | |
| 10. | [ verb ] emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully | |
| Examples: | "The dragon shot fumes and flames out of its mouth." |
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| Related terms: | emit | |
| 11. | [ verb ] spend frivolously and unwisely | |
| Synonyms: | dissipate frivol_away fritter_away fool fool_away fritter | |
| Examples: | "Fritter away one's inheritance" |
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| Related terms: | consume consume | |
| 12. | [ verb ] produce buds, branches, or germinate; of plants | |
| Synonyms: | sprout germinate bourgeon burgeon_forth pullulate spud | |
| Related terms: | grow germinate germination gemmation sprout germ | |
| 13. | [ verb ] (sport) score | |
| Examples: | "shoot a basket" "shoot a goal" |
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| Related terms: | score sport | |
| 14. | [ verb ] variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors | |
| Examples: | "shoot cloth" |
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| Related terms: | weave | |
| 15. | [ verb ] force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing | |
| Synonyms: | inject | |
| Examples: | "inject hydrogen into the balloon" |
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| Related terms: | insert inject | |
| 16. | [ noun ] (botany) a new branch | |
| Related terms: | sprout tiller sucker | |
| 17. | [ verb ] measure the altitude of by using a sextant | |
| Examples: | "shoot a star" |
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| Related terms: | measure | |
| 18. | [ verb ] utter fast and forcefully | |
| Examples: | "She shot back an answer" |
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| Related terms: | utter | |
| 19. | [ verb ] cause a sharp and sudden pain in | |
| Examples: | "The pain shot up her leg" |
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| Related terms: | ache | |
| 20. | [ verb ] throw dice, as in a crap game | |
| Related terms: | throw crap-shooter | |
| 21. | [ verb ] (medicine) give an injection to | |
| Synonyms: | inject | |
| Examples: | "We injected the glucose into the patient's vein" |
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| Related terms: | administer immunize infuse medicine inject | |
| 22. | [ noun ] (arms) the act of shooting at targets | |
| Examples: | "they hold a shoot every weekend during the summer" |
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| Related terms: | shooting skeet | |
| Similar spelling: |
shot shout Shott shoat shut shod shit Shutt Shute shoed shite Sheth sheet shoddy shitty Shiite sheath soot shuteye shittah sheathe |
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