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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

... was episodes like the one that had just concluded which made Otis Pilkington wish that he possessed a little more assertion. He regretted wistfully that he was not one of those men who can put their hat on the side of their heads and shoot out their chins and say to the world "Well, what about it!" He was bearing the financial burden of this production. If it should be a failure, his would be the loss. Yet somehow this coarse, rough person in front of him never seemed to ...

— The Little Warrior - (U.K. Title: Jill the Reckless) • P. G. Wodehouse

... removed in the fall or early spring by removing first the soil from the crown so as not to injure the buds, and cutting off the old stalks. These should be burned and the soil replaced with clean soil or preferably sand. Whenever a shoot shows sign of the disease it should be cut off and burned. The buds must also be watched and any that begin to turn brown or black and die must also be cut off and burned, as spores will be found upon them, and these will be spread by the wind and insects. ...

— Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 • Various

... present degraded state, they were unfit for it! Liberty was the child of reason and order. It was indeed a plant of celestial growth, but the soil must be prepared for its reception. He, who would see it flourish and bring forth its proper fruit, must not think it sufficient to let it shoot in unrestrained licentiousness. But if this inestimable blessing was ever to be imparted to them, the cause must be removed, which obstructed its introduction. In short, no effectual remedy could be found but in ...

— The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808) • Thomas Clarkson

... pleasant for Sir Charles Mirabel to have letters constantly addressed to him at Brookes's, with the information that Captain Costigan was in the hall waiting for an answer; or when he went to play his rubber at the Travelers', to be obliged to shoot out of his brougham and run up the steps rapidly, lest his father-in-law should seize upon him; and to think that while he read his paper or played his whist, the captain was walking on the opposite side of Pall Mall, with that dreadful cocked hat, and the eye beneath ...

— The History of Pendennis, Vol. 2 - His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy • William Makepeace Thackeray

... was pretty clear that the besieged man had plenty of firearms loaded and ready. They scrambled up the steps again. "It was all very well," they said; "but as they could only advance in single file, exposing their legs before they could use their arms, the Englishman from behind his barricade could shoot them ...

— The Blue Pavilions • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

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