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| Main Entry: |
shoot
[shoot]
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| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | shooting |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | firing a weapon |
| Synonyms: | blasting, discharging, firing, gunfire, gunning, pulling the trigger |
| Main Entry: | shooting |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a sport |
| Synonyms: | field sport, hunting, pursuit of game animals, target shooting |
| Main Entry: | acute |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | severe, intense |
| Synonyms: | cutting, distressing, excruciating, exquisite, fierce, keen, overpowering, overwhelming, piercing, poignant, powerful, racking, severe, sharp, shooting, stabbing, sudden, violent |
| Notes: | acute is used for a sudden onset and short duration; chronic is for conditions that are slow to develop and of long duration acute is an angle of less than 90 degrees; obtuse is one of more than 90 degrees chronic is contrasted with acute as chronic pain persists over a longer period of time than acute pain and is resistant to most medical treatments |
| 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: | 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bud |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sprout |
| Synonyms: | burgeon, burst forth, develop, grow, pullulate, shoot |
| Antonyms: | die, shrink, waste, wither |
| Main Entry: | cast |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a throw to the side |
| Synonyms: | casting, ejection, expulsion, fling, flinging, heave, heaving, hurl, hurling, launching, lob, lobbing, pitch, pitching, projection, propulsion, shooting, sling, slinging, thrust, thrusting, toss, tossing |
| Antonyms: | catch, keeping, retention |
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