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1. The act of firing a projectile
   "his shooting was slow but accurate"
   - shot
    
2. Killing someone by gunfire
   "when the shooting stopped there were three dead bodies"

1. Hit with a missile from a weapon
   - hit, pip
    
2. Kill by firing a missile
   - pip
    
3. Fire a shot
   - blast
    
4. Make a film or photograph of something
   "shoot a movie"
   - film, take
    
5. Send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly
   "shoot a glance"
    
6. Run or move very quickly or hastily
   - dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash
    
7. Move quickly and violently
   - tear, shoot down, charge, buck, bomb [Brit]
    
8. Throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective
   "shoot craps"; "shoot a golf ball"
    
9. Record on photographic film
   - photograph, snap
    
10. Emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully
    "The dragon shot fumes and flames out of its mouth"
     
11. Cause a sharp and sudden pain in
    "The pain shot up her leg"
     
12. Force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing
    - inject
     
13. Variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colours
    "shoot cloth"
     
14. Throw dice, as in a crap game
     
15. Spend frivolously and unwisely
    - fritter, frivol away, dissipate, fritter away, fool, fool away
     
16. Score
    "shoot a basket"; "shoot a goal"
     
17. Utter fast and forcefully
    "She shot back an answer"
     
18. Measure the altitude of by using a sextant
    "shoot a star"
     
19. Produce buds, branches, or germinate
    - spud, germinate, pullulate, bourgeon [archaic], burgeon forth, sprout, burgeon
     
20. Give an injection to
    - inject

Derived forms: shootings

See also: shoot up, shooter

Type of: ache, actuation, administer, belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, cast, consume, contrive, discharge, dispense, emit, enclose, enter, fire, give off, give out, grow, hasten, hie [archaic], hit, homicide, hotfoot, hurt, inclose, injure, insert, interweave, introduce, kill, let loose, let out, measure, measure out, mensurate, pelt along, project, propulsion, put down, put in, race, rack up, record, rush, rush along, score, smart, speed, squander, step on it, stick in, tally, throw, utter, ware, waste, weave, wound

Encyclopedia: Shoot Shoot, shovel, and shut up