Synonyms for shoot

Grammar : Verb

Spell : shoot

Phonetic Transcription : ʃut

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Définition of shoot

Origin : Old English sceotan "to hurl missiles, cast; strike, hit, push; run, rush; send forth swiftly; wound with missiles" (class II strong verb; past tense sceat, past participle scoten), from Proto-Germanic *skeutanan (cf. Old Saxon skiotan, Old Norse skjota "to shoot with (a weapon); shoot, launch, push, shove quickly," Old Frisian skiata, Middle Dutch skieten, Dutch schieten, Old High German skiozan, German schießen), from PIE root *skeud- "to shoot, to chase, to throw, to project" (cf. Sanskrit skundate "hastens, makes haste," Old Church Slavonic iskydati "to throw out," Lithuanian skudrus "quick, nimble").
In reference to pool playing, from 1926. Meaning "to strive (for)" is from 1967, American English. Sense of "descend (a river) quickly" is from 1610s. Meaning "to inject by means of a hypodermic needle" is attested from 1914. Meaning "photograph" (especially a movie) is from 1890. As an interjection, an arbitrary euphemistic alteration of shit, it is recorded from 1934. Shoot the breeze "chat" first recorded 1941. Shoot-'em-up (adj.) in reference to violent entertainment (Western movies, etc.) is from 1942. Shoot to kill first attested 1867. Shoot the cat "to vomit" is from 1785. To shoot the moon originally meant "depart by night with ones goods to escape back rent" (1829).
O, 'tis cash makes such crowds to the gin shops roam,And 'tis cash often causes a rumpus at home ;'Tis when short of cash people oft shoot the moon ;And 'tis cash always keeps our pipes in tune.Cash! cash! &c.["The Melodist and Mirthful Olio, An Elegant Collection of the Most Popular Songs," vol. IV, London, 1829]

verb discharge a projectile, often to injure or kill
verb dash

Example sentences :

Then it's better to take him out back of the barn and shoot him, by Gad!
Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson

And, if this thing keeps on, I'm going to shoot again—and again.
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

Perhaps, after all, I might have the brains to jest and toss about words and shoot off epigrams.
Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke

Because he killed a horse trying to get you, you're going to give him a chance to shoot you?
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

Shoot while you may, and then out sword, and let us live or die together!
Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle

"Do not shoot outside the fifteen-score paces," cried Johnston.
Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle

Eager to shoot him—Silver, the only thing that loved and understood him?
Extract from : « Chip, of the Flying U » by B. M. Bower

She was fond of hunting, and could shoot at a mark with wonderful skill.
Extract from : « Biographical Stories » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

He does not shoot naturally, but he learns by patient practice.
Extract from : « The Story of the Malakand Field Force » by Sir Winston S. Churchill

They shoot between the logs of the palisade down the narrow lane.
Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White

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