Shoot

Quick meaning: Shoot is a verb meaning To launch (forcefully project) a projectile.

Meaning

To launch (forcefully project) a projectile.

More Meanings

1. To move or act quickly or suddenly.
2. (sports) To act or achieve.
3. (surveying) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
4. (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
5. To develop, move forward.
6. To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
7. (carpentry) To plane straight; to fit by planing.

Example Sentences

The land shoots into a promontory.

There shot up against the dark sky, tall, gaunt, straggling houses.

You can kiss a hundred boys in bars Shoot another shot, try to stop the feeling

The tangled water-courses slept, / Shot over with purple, and green, and yellow.

Word Forms

• shoots
• shooting
• shot
• shotten
• shooted
• shootest
• shootedst
• shotst
• shottest
• shooteth

Synonyms for shoot

Depending on context, synonyms include darn, dash, fiddlesticks, shucks, sugar, fix.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dart, hit, scud, snap, flash, tear.

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