shoot
(noun, verb, interjection)
interjection
1. A mild expletive, expressing disbelief or disdain
- Shoot! I forgot! I have to go and get ready...
noun
1. a new branch
Definition categories: plant, sprout
2. the act of shooting at targets
- they hold a shoot every weekend during the summer
verb
1. hit with a missile from a weapon
Definition categories: competition, injure, wound
2. kill by firing a missile
Similar word(s): pip
Definition categories: social, kill
3. fire a shot
Similar word(s): blast
Definition categories: competition, discharge, fire
4. make a film or photograph of something
- shoot a movie
Definition categories: communication, enter, record
5. send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly
- shoot a glance
Definition categories: motion, cast, contrive, project, throw
6. run or move very quickly or hastily
Similar word(s): dart, dash, flash, scoot, scud
Definition categories: motion, hasten, hie, hotfoot, race, rush, speed
7. move quickly and violently
Similar word(s): buck, charge, tear
Definition categories: motion, hasten, hie, hotfoot, race, rush, speed
8. throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective
- shoot craps
- shoot a golf ball
Definition categories: contact, hit
9. record on photographic film
Similar word(s): photograph, snap
Definition categories: communication, enter, record
10. emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully
Definition categories: weather, emit
11. cause a sharp and sudden pain in
Definition categories: perception, ache, hurt, smart
12. force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing
Similar word(s): inject
Definition categories: contact, enclose, inclose, insert, introduce
13. variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors
- shoot cloth
Definition categories: contact, interweave, weave
14. throw dice, as in a crap game
Definition categories: contact, throw
15. spend frivolously and unwisely
Similar word(s): dissipate, fool, fritter
Definition categories: consumption, consume, squander, ware, waste
16. score
- shoot a basket
- shoot a goal
Definition categories: competition, hit, score, tally
17. utter fast and forcefully
Definition categories: communication, emit, utter
18. measure the altitude of by using a sextant
- shoot a star
Definition categories: cognition, measure, mensurate
19. produce buds, branches, or germinate
Similar word(s): bourgeon, germinate, pullulate, sprout, spud
Definition categories: change, grow
20. give an injection to
Similar word(s): inject
Definition categories: body, administer, dispense
Sentences with shoot as a verb:
- to shoot a gun
- The man, in a desperate bid for freedom, grabbed his gun and started shooting anyone he could.
- He shoots better than he rides.
- The gun shoots well.
- shoot the rapids
- a shooting pain in my leg
- I'll shoot you an email with all the details
- to shoot up rapidly
- A plant shoots out a bud.
- The land shoots into a promontory.