noun
- A new branch.
- The act of shooting at targets.
- usage: "they hold a shoot every weekend during the summer"
verb
- Hit with a missile from a weapon.
- Kill by firing a missile.
- synonyms: pip
- Fire a shot.
- usage: "the gunman blasted away"
- synonyms: blast
- Make a film or photograph of something.
- usage: "take a scene"; "shoot a movie"
- Send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly.
- usage: "shoot a glance"
- Run or move very quickly or hastily.
- usage: "She dashed into the yard"
- Move quickly and violently.
- usage: "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office"
- synonyms: tear, shoot down, charge, buck
- Throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective.
- usage: "shoot craps"; "shoot a golf ball"
- Record on photographic film.
- usage: "I photographed the scene of the accident"; "She snapped a picture of the President"
- synonyms: photograph, snap
- Emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully.
- usage: "The dragon shot fumes and flames out of its mouth"
- Cause a sharp and sudden pain in.
- usage: "The pain shot up her leg"
- Force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing.
- usage: "inject hydrogen into the balloon"
- synonyms: inject
- Variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors.
- usage: "shoot cloth"
- Throw dice, as in a crap game.
- Spend frivolously and unwisely.
- usage: "Fritter away one's inheritance"
- synonyms: fritter, frivol away, dissipate, fritter away, fool, fool away
- Score.
- usage: "shoot a basket"; "shoot a goal"
- Utter fast and forcefully.
- usage: "She shot back an answer"
- Measure the altitude of by using a sextant.
- usage: "shoot a star"
- Produce buds, branches, or germinate.
- usage: "the potatoes sprouted"
- Give an injection to.
- usage: "We injected the glucose into the patient's vein"
- synonyms: inject
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