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Words related to shoot

Related / Similar Words: inject, spud, germinate, pullulate, bourgeon, burgeon forth, sprout, film, take, photograph, snap, hit, pip, fritter, frivol away, dissipate, fritter away, fool, fool away, tear, shoot down, charge, buck, dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash

Definition:

the act of shooting at targets; "they hold a shoot every weekend during the summer";

a new branch;

give an injection to; "We injected the glucose into the patient''s vein";

produce buds, branches, or germinate; "the potatoes sprouted";

measure the altitude of by using a sextant; "shoot a star";

utter fast and forcefully; "She shot back an answer";

make a film or photograph of something; "take a scene"; "shoot a movie";

record on photographic film; "I photographed the scene of the accident"; "She snapped a picture of the President";

score; "shoot a basket"; "shoot a goal";

fire a shot;

hit with a missile from a weapon;

spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one''s inheritance";

throw dice, as in a crap game;

variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors; "shoot cloth";

force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing; "inject hydrogen into the balloon";

throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective; "shoot craps"; "shoot a golf ball";

move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office";

run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard";

send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly; "shoot a glance";

cause a sharp and sudden pain in; "The pain shot up her leg";

kill by firing a missile;

emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully; "The dragon shot fumes and flames out of its mouth";

See Also: shoot up, cut back, flash back

Hyponyms: skeet, skeet shooting, trapshooting, sucker, tiller, infuse, immunize, immunise, inoculate, vaccinate, reshoot, retake, x-ray, blaze away, blaze, overshoot, sharpshoot, snipe, open fire, fire, gun, pump, gun down, grass, kneecap, dunk, break, chip, carom, birdie, double birdie, double bogey, bogey, knuckle, rip, plunge, flight, pick off

Grouped Verbs: inject, germinate, photograph, snap, film, take, hit, pip, strike, dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash, tear, shoot down, charge, buck

Entailments: consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out

Anagrams: sooth, Sotho

Language Translations:
Chinese: 射		Dutch: schieten
Esperanto: pafi		Finnish: ampua
French: tirer		German: (''not killing'') anschießen and schießen
Hebrew: ירה		Hungarian: lő
Icelandic: skjóta		Indonesian: tembak
Italian: sparare		Japanese: 撃つ
Korean: 쏘다		Norwegian: skyte
Portuguese: atirar		Russian: выстрелить and стрелять
Slovak: streliť and strieľať		Spanish: disparar and tirar
Swahili: kupiga risasi		Swedish: skjuta

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