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gun

/ˈɡʌn/ verbe C2

En français : tirer sur, emballer, viser

  1. To shoot with a gun. (transitive)
  2. To cause to speed up. (transitive) · He gunned the engine.
  3. To offer vigorous support to (a person or cause). (informal) · We're all gunning for you.
  4. To strongly desire or seek, and make a great effort to obtain (something which one is 'gunning for' or 'gunning to do'). (informal)
  5. To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone; used with for. · He's been gunning for you ever since you embarrassed him at the party.
  6. To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.
  7. Synonym of gun down (“to masturbate while making sustained eye contact with someone — typically a female prison officer — as a form of intimidation”). (US, slang)

He/she/it guns · Prétérit gunned · Participe passé gunned · Forme en -ing gunning

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Dans la bibliothèque

Scarlet coat and pointed gun,
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 22 · C1
The big man has gone for his gun!
The Jungle Book, p. 81 · B2
“‘In order to reach the billiard-room I had to descend a flight of stairs and then to cross the head of a passage which led to the library and the gun-room.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 9 · B2
On the evening of our arrival we were sitting in the Colonel’s gun-room after dinner, Holmes stretched upon the sofa, while Hayter and I looked over his little armoury of fire-arms.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 30 · B2

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