shoot
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"

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"

Related terms: rush plunge cut_back tear dash scooter motor_scooter iceboat dart
6. [ verb ] send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly
Examples:

"shoot a glance"

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"

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"

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"

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."

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"

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"

Related terms: score sport
14. [ verb ] variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors
Examples:

"shoot cloth"

Related terms: weave
15. [ verb ] force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing
Synonyms: inject
Examples:

"inject hydrogen into the balloon"

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"

Related terms: measure
18. [ verb ] utter fast and forcefully
Examples:

"She shot back an answer"

Related terms: utter
19. [ verb ] cause a sharp and sudden pain in
Examples:

"The pain shot up her leg"

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"

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"

Related terms: shooting skeet
Similar spelling:   shot
  shout
  Shott
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  Shute
  shoed
  shite
  Sheth
  sheet
  shoddy
  shitty
  Shiite
  sheath
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  shuteye
  shittah
  sheathe