shoot

/ʃut/ verbnoun
5 letters1 syllable8 points in Scrabble®7 points in WWF®
DEFINITIONS22
VERB
1

Make a film or photograph of something.

“shoot a movie”

2

Produce buds, branches, or germinate.

3

Give an injection to.

4

Cause a sharp and sudden pain in.

5

Emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully.

6

Measure the altitude of by using a sextant.

“shoot a star”

7

Score.

“shoot a basket”

“shoot a goal”

8

Send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly.

“shoot a glance”

9

Throw dice, as in a crap game.

10

Force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing.

11

Throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective.

“shoot craps”

“shoot a golf ball”

12

Utter fast and forcefully.

13

Variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors.

“shoot cloth”

14

Move quickly and violently.

15

Hit with a missile from a weapon.

16

Spend frivolously and unwisely.

17

Fire a shot.

18

Record on photographic film.

19

Run or move very quickly or hastily.

20

Kill by firing a missile.

NOUN
1

A new branch.

2

The act of shooting at targets.

“they hold a shoot every weekend during the summer”

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