Synonyms for aimed
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : eym |
| Phonetic Transcription : eɪm |
Définition of aimed
Origin :- early 14c., "target;" late 14c., "guess;" from aim (v.). Meaning "action of aiming" is from early 15c. (to take aim, originally make aim); that of "thing intended, purpose" is from 1620s.
- adj proposed
- Still there were other and nearer roads to the point I aimed at.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
- He thinks that every bullet is going to hit him, and that every shot is aimed at him.
- Extract from : « The Story of the Malakand Field Force » by Sir Winston S. Churchill
- Thoroughness and accuracy are two principal points to be aimed at in study.
- Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles
- He aimed at it with a crumpled envelope he held in his hand, and hit it.
- Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
- But she did not speak to Eleanore now, her talk like Joe's was aimed at me.
- Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
- The shafts of our enemies cannot thus be aimed with such fatal certainty.
- Extract from : « Gomez Arias » by Joaqun Telesforo de Trueba y Coso
- Her manners were immeasurably better than his, because they were simple and aimed at nothing.
- Extract from : « Salted With Fire » by George MacDonald
- Deliberately it came up and aimed at the crown of the adventurer's helmet.
- Extract from : « The Bluff of the Hawk » by Anthony Gilmore
- Dean had aimed to one side and he regretted it in the instant of firing.
- Extract from : « Two Thousand Miles Below » by Charles Willard Diffin
- He looked at her in astonishment, wondering dully what she aimed to achieve.
- Extract from : « The Education of Eric Lane » by Stephen McKenna
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