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[Verb] | "shoot" | \ ˈshüt \

1: to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger)

2: to drive forth or cause to be driven forth by an explosion (as of a powder charge in a firearm or of ignited fuel in a rocket)

3: to drive forth or cause to be driven forth by a sudden release of gas or air

Origin: before 12th century ;

Middle English sheten, shoten, shuten, from Old English scēotan; akin to Old Norse skjōta to shoot;

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[Verb] | "shoot down"

1: to cause to fall by shooting; especially : to kill in this way

2: to put an end to : defeat, reject

3: deflate, ridicule

Origin: 1657 ;

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[Verb] | "shoot up"

1: to shoot or shoot at especially recklessly

2: to inject (a narcotic drug) into a vein

3: to inject a narcotic into a vein

Origin: 1890 ;

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[Noun] | "shoot"

1: a sending out of new growth or the growth sent out: such as

2: a stem or branch with its leaves and appendages especially when not yet mature

3: offshoot

Origin: 15th century ;

Middle English schot, schote projectile, new growth, in part from shoten, verb, in part from Old English sceot shot;

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[Noun] | "chute" | \ ˈshüt \

1: fall

2: a quick descent (as in a river) : rapid

3: an inclined plane, sloping channel, or passage down or through which things may pass : slide

Origin: 1805 ;

French, from Old French, from cheoir to fall, from Latin cadere{mat|chance|};

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[Noun] | "shoot-'em-up" | \ ˈshüt-əm-ˌəp \

1: a movie, television show, or computer game with much shooting and bloodshed

Origin: 1947 ;

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[Noun] | "shoot-out" | \ ˈshüt-ˌau̇t \

1: a battle fought with handguns or rifles

2: something resembling a shoot-out; broadly : showdown

3: a shooting competition in overtime that is used to determine the winner of a game (as in soccer or hockey) tied at the end of regular play

Origin: 1948 ;

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[Noun] | "shoot-the-chutes" | \ ˌshüt-t͟hə-ˈshüts \

1: an amusement ride consisting of a steep incline down which boats slide into a pool at the bottom

Origin: 1920 ;

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[Interjection] | "shoot"

1: —used to express annoyance or surprise

Origin: 1876 ;

Euphemism for shit;

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[Verb] | "shoot"

1: to cause (a projectile) to be driven forward with force;

* e.g., " ... BB guns shoot small round metal pellets "

Antonyms :
crawl,
creep,
poke

2: to cause a weapon to release a missile with great force;

* e.g., " ... soldiers train extensively to learn to shoot accurately and quickly "

Synonyms :
blast,
discharge,
fire

Antonyms :
accept,
receive

3: to strike with a missile from a gun;

* e.g., " ... hunters can shoot deer only during the legally specified open season "

Synonyms :
drill,
gun,
plug,
pop

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[Verb] | "shoot (up)"

1: to rise abruptly and rapidly;

* e.g., " ... gas prices shot up seemingly overnight "

Synonyms :
rocket,
skyrocket,
soar,
zoom

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[Verb] | "shoot down"

1: to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter;

* e.g., " ... nowadays the aging activist is routinely shot down in most quarters of the media and dismissed as an irrelevant crank "

Antonyms :
confirm,
ratify

2: to reject by or as if by a vote;

* e.g., " ... every one of my fund-raising ideas was shot down by the other club members "

3: to prove to be false;

* e.g., " ... the results of several studies shoot down the hypothesis that coffee causes heart attacks "

Antonyms :
(N/A)

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[Noun] | "shoot"

1: a branch of a main stem especially of a plant;

* e.g., " ... collected the most tender shoots for the vegetable dish he was making "

Synonyms :
offshoot,
outgrowth,
sprout

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2: a sharp unpleasant sensation usually felt in some specific part of the body;

* e.g., " ... there'd be a shoot of pain from that molar whenever I bit down "

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[Phrase] | "shoot at"

1: to make an effort to do;

* e.g., " ... Let's shoot at a 6:30 arrival. "

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[Phrase] | "shoot the breeze"

1: to engage in casual or rambling conversation;

* e.g., " ... The kids were shooting the breeze before the assembly. "

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