SHOOT

• (noun) the act of shooting at targets

  "they hold a shoot every weekend during the summer"

• (noun) a new branch

• (verb) give an injection to

  "We injected the glucose into the patient's vein"

  synonyms : inject

• (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate

  "the potatoes sprouted"

  synonyms : bourgeon , burgeon forth , germinate , pullulate , sprout , spud

• (verb) measure the altitude of by using a sextant

  "shoot a star"

• (verb) utter fast and forcefully

  "She shot back an answer"

• (verb) make a film or photograph of something

  "take a scene", "shoot a movie"

  synonyms : film , take

• (verb) record on photographic film

  "I photographed the scene of the accident", "She snapped a picture of the President"

  synonyms : photograph , snap

• (verb) score

  "shoot a basket", "shoot a goal"

• (verb) fire a shot

  "the gunman blasted away"

  synonyms : blast

• (verb) hit with a missile from a weapon

  synonyms : hit , pip

• (verb) spend frivolously and unwisely

  "Fritter away one's inheritance"

  synonyms : dissipate , fool , fool away , fritter , fritter away , frivol away

• (verb) throw dice, as in a crap game

• (verb) variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors

  "shoot cloth"

• (verb) force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing

  "inject hydrogen into the balloon"

  synonyms : inject

• (verb) throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective

  "shoot craps", "shoot a golf ball"

• (verb) move quickly and violently

  "The car tore down the street", "He came charging into my office"

  synonyms : buck , charge , shoot down , tear

• (verb) run or move very quickly or hastily

  "She dashed into the yard"

  synonyms : dart , dash , flash , scoot , scud
  
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  scooting around the river in a powerboat

• (verb) send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly

  "shoot a glance"

• (verb) cause a sharp and sudden pain in

  "The pain shot up her leg"

• (verb) kill by firing a missile

  synonyms : pip

• (verb) emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully

  "The dragon shot fumes and flames out of its mouth"

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.

Mnemonics for shoot

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