shoot

Main Entry:
shoot [shoot]
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: discharge a projectile, often to injure or kill
Synonyms: bag*, barrage, blast, bombard, bring down, catapult, dispatch, drop the hammer, emit, execute, expel, explode, fire, fling, gun, hit, hurl, ignite, kill, launch, let fly, let go with, loose, murder, open fire, open up, pick off, plug, pop*, project, propel, pull the trigger, pump, set off, throw lead, torpedo, trigger, zap
Notes: a chute is a sloping channel through which things can descend; shoot, as a noun, is a sprout, a bud, young leaf, or other new growth on a plant; shoot, as a verb, means to hit with a missile from a weapon - fire a shot - make a film or photograph of something - move quickly and violently
Antonyms: backfire
Main Entry: bag
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: catch
Synonyms: acquire, apprehend, capture, collar, gain, get, hook, kill, land, nab, nail, net, seize, shoot, take, trap
Antonyms: lose
Main Entry: beam
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: ray of light
Synonyms: bar, beacon, chink, column, dartle, emission, finger, flicker, glare, gleam, glimmer, glint, glitter, glow, laser, radiation, ray, shaft, shimmer, shoot, sparkle, streak, stream, twinkle
Notes: ray is distinguished from beam in that it describes a smaller quantity of light (beam being a collection of parallel rays)
Main Entry: blossom
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: flower
Synonyms: bloom, blow, burgeon, burst, effloresce, leaf, open, outbloom, shoot, unfold
Antonyms: fade, shrink, shrivel, wither
Main Entry: boast
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: brag
Synonyms: advertise, aggrandize, attract attention, blow, blow one's own horn, blow smoke, bluster, bully, cock-a-doodle-doo, con, congratulate oneself, crow, exaggerate, exult, fake, flatter oneself, flaunt, flourish, gasconade, give a good account of oneself, gloat, glory, grandstand, hug oneself, jive, lay on thick, prate, preen, psych, puff, shoot*, shovel, show off, showboat, shuck, sling, sound off, strut, swagger, talk big, triumph, vapor
Antonyms: be modest, deprecate
Main Entry: bough
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: branch
Synonyms: arm, fork, limb, offshoot, shoot, sprig, sucker
Main Entry: branch
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: arm, limb
Synonyms: bough, branchlet, bug, detour, divergence, extension, fork, growth, offshoot, prong, scion, shoot, spray, sprig, wing
Main Entry: bud
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: new sprout on plant
Synonyms: bloom, blossom, embryo, floret, germ, incipient flower, nucleus, shoot, spark
Main Entry: bud
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: sprout
Synonyms: burgeon, burst forth, develop, grow, pullulate, shoot
Antonyms: die, shrink, waste, wither
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