shoot
/ʃut/ verb A2- To fire (a weapon that releases a bullet or other projectile). · to shoot a gun
- To fire or launch (a projectile).
- To fire a projectile at (a person or target). · The man, in a desperate bid for freedom, grabbed his gun and started shooting anyone he could.· The hunter shot the deer to harvest its meat.
- To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile; to use a gun or similar weapon. · They shot at a target.· He shoots better than he rides.
- To hunt game with a gun; to go hunting for recreation. · They're coming to shoot with us on Sunday.
- To hunt on (a piece of land) with a gun; to kill game in or on.
- To function as a weapon that launches a projectile. · The gun shoots well.
- To throw dice; to roll.
Plural shoot · He/she/it shoots · Past shot · Past participle shot · -ing form shooting
Verb forms
- Base form
- shoot
- He/she/it
- shoots
- Past
- shot
- Past participle
- shot
- -ing form
- shooting
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- shoot around To record footage in the absence of (one of the actors), ...
- shoot back Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shoot,...
- shoot down To cause to fall by shooting.
- shoot off To leave quickly.
- shoot out To destroy something or remove something from its usual l...
- shoot through Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shoot,...
- shoot up To grow taller or larger rapidly.
From the library
We performed the usual burial service, and he is at his rest, sewn up in his hammock with a thirty-six-pound shot at his head and his heels, off El Giglio island.
“Surely,” answered Danglars, “one cannot be held responsible for every chance arrow shot into the air.”
Douglas declares that her husband had not left her more than a few minutes when she heard the shot.”
Let what may remain of revolutionary sap exhaust itself and die away with the old trunk, and condescend only to regard the young shoot which has started up at a distance from the parent tree, without having the power, any more than the wish, to separate entirely from the stock from which it sprung.”
Other matches
- shoot The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new... C2
- shoot A mild expletive, expressing disbelief or dismay C2
- shoot around To record footage in the absence of
- shoot back Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: ...
- shoot down To cause to fall by shooting.
- shoot off To leave quickly.
- shoot out To destroy something or remove something from i...
- shoot through Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: ...
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