1. The act of firing a projectile
   "his shooting was slow but accurate";
   - shot
    
2. Killing someone by gunfire
   "when the shooting stopped there were three dead bodies"

1. Strike with a missile from a weapon
   "The hunter shot the deer";
   - hit, pip
    
2. Kill by firing a gun
   "The assassin shot the politician";
   - pip [informal], smoke [N. Amer, informal], blow away [informal]
    
3. Fire a shot; release
   "The hunter shot at the target";
   - blast
    
4. Make a film or photograph of something
   "shoot a movie";
   - film, take
    
5. Take a photograph
   "I shot the scene of the accident";
   - photograph, snap [informal], photo [informal]
    
6. Send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly
   "shoot a glance"
    
7. Emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully
   "The dragon shot fumes and flames out of its mouth"
    
8. Throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective
   "shoot craps"; "shoot a golf ball"
    
9. Move quickly and violently
   "The car shot down the street";
   - tear [informal], shoot down, charge, buck, bomb [Brit, informal], scream [informal]
    
10. Run or move very quickly or hastily
    "She shot into the yard";
    - dart, dash, scoot [informal], scud, flash, whip [informal]
     
11. Cause a sharp and sudden pain in
    "The pain shot up her leg"
     
12. Score
    "shoot a basket"; "shoot a goal"
     
13. Force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing
    "The doctor shot the vaccine into the patient's arm";
    - inject
     
14. Give an injection to
    "We shot the glucose into the patient's vein";
    - inject
     
15. Utter fast and forcefully
    "She shot back an answer"
     
16. Throw dice, as in a crap game
    "He shot the dice and hoped for a seven"
     
17. Spend frivolously and unwisely
    "He shot his entire paycheque at the casino";
    - fritter, frivol away, dissipate, fritter away, fool, fool away
     
18. Measure the altitude of by using a sextant
    "shoot a star"
     
19. Produce buds, branches, or germinate
    "The potatoes began to shoot in the dark cellar";
    - germinate, pullulate, bourgeon [archaic], burgeon forth [archaic], sprout, burgeon [archaic]
     
20. Variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colours
    "shoot cloth"

Derived forms: shootings

Type of: ache, actuation, administer, barrel [informal], belt [informal], belt along [informal], bucket [informal], bucket along [informal], cast, consume, contrive, discharge, dispense, emit, enclose, enter, fire, give off, give out, grow, hasten, hie [archaic], hit, homicide, hotfoot, hurry, hurt, inclose, injure, insert, interweave, introduce, kill, let loose, let out, measure, measure out, mensurate [rare], pelt [informal], pelt along [informal], project, propulsion, put down, put in, race, rack up, record, rocket [informal], rush, rush along, score, smart, speed, squander, step on it [informal], stick in, tally, throw, travel rapidly, utter, ware [archaic], waste, weave, whizz [informal], whizz along [informal], wing [informal], wound, zip [informal], zoom, zoom along [informal]

Encyclopedia: Shooting, shovelling, and shutting up