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Sounds | shuw't |
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Rhymes | absolute, acute, arrowroot, and 76 more rhymes in uwt at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | A new branch. |
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Narrower | sucker; tiller |
Broader | sprout |
Verbs | shoot |
Meaning | The act of shooting at targets. |
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Examples | "they hold a shoot every weekend during the summer" |
Narrower | skeet, skeet shooting, trapshooting |
Broader | shooting, shot |
Verbs | shoot; shoot |
Meaning | Hit with a missile from a weapon. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
Synonyms | hit, pip |
Entailed by | machine gun |
Narrower | gun down; grass; kneecap |
Broader | injure, wound |
Similar to | strike, hit; shoot; shoot, pip |
Nouns | shooter; shoot |
Meaning | Kill by firing a missile. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody |
Model | They want to shoot the prisoners |
Synonyms | pip |
Narrower | flight; pick off |
Broader | kill |
Similar to | shoot, hit, pip |
Nouns | shooter; shooter; shooting |
Meaning | Fire a shot. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s PP |
Entailed by | undershoot |
Narrower | blaze away, blaze; overshoot; sharpshoot, snipe; open fire, fire; gun; pump |
Broader | fire, discharge |
Similar to | shoot, hit, pip |
Nouns | shooting; shooter; shoot |
Meaning | Make a film or photograph of something. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
Model | Sam and Sue shoot the movie |
Examples | "shoot a movie" |
Synonyms | film, take |
Category | movie, film, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flick |
Narrower | reshoot |
Broader | record, enter, put down |
Similar to | photograph, snap, shoot |
Meaning | Send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "shoot a glance" |
Broader | project, cast, contrive, throw |
Meaning | Run or move very quickly or hastily. |
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Pattern | Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP |
Synonyms | dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash |
Narrower | plunge |
Broader | rush, hotfoot, hasten, hie, speed, race, pelt along, rush along, cannonball along, bucket along, belt along |
Similar to | tear, shoot, shoot down, charge, buck |
Meaning | Move quickly and violently. |
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Pattern | Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP |
Synonyms | tear, shoot down, charge, buck |
Narrower | rip |
Broader | rush, hotfoot, hasten, hie, speed, race, pelt along, rush along, cannonball along, bucket along, belt along |
Similar to | dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash, shoot |
See also | shoot up |
Meaning | Throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "shoot craps"; "shoot a golf ball" |
Narrower | dunk; break; chip; carom; birdie; double birdie; double bogey; bogey; knuckle |
Broader | hit |
Nouns | shooter; shooter |
Meaning | Record on photographic film. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
Synonyms | photograph, snap |
Category | photography, picture taking |
Narrower | retake; x-ray |
Broader | record, enter, put down |
Similar to | film, shoot, take |
Meaning | Emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully. |
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Pattern | Something ----s something |
Broader | emit, give out, give off |
Meaning | Cause a sharp and sudden pain in. |
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Pattern | Something is ----ing PP |
Broader | ache, smart, hurt |
Meaning | Force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s somebody with something |
Model | They shoot the fruit with a chemical; They shoot a chemical into the fruit |
Synonyms | inject |
Broader | insert, enclose, inclose, stick in, put in, introduce |
Similar to | inject, shoot |
Meaning | Variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "shoot cloth" |
Broader | weave, interweave |
Meaning | Throw dice, as in a crap game. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s |
Broader | throw |
Nouns | shooter |
Meaning | Spend frivolously and unwisely. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Synonyms | fritter, frivol away, dissipate, fritter away, fool, fool away |
Entails | consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out |
Broader | consume, squander, waste, ware |
Meaning | Score. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "shoot a basket"; "shoot a goal" |
Category | sport, athletics |
Broader | score, hit, tally, rack up |
Meaning | Utter fast and forcefully. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Broader | utter, emit, let out, let loose |
Meaning | Measure the altitude of by using a sextant. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "shoot a star" |
Broader | measure, mensurate, measure out |
Meaning | Produce buds, branches, or germinate. |
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Pattern | Something ----s |
Synonyms | spud, germinate, pullulate, bourgeon, burgeon forth, sprout |
Broader | grow |
Similar to | germinate |
Nouns | shoot |
Meaning | Give an injection to. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s somebody with something |
Synonyms | inject |
Category | medicine, practice of medicine |
Narrower | infuse; immunize, immunise, inoculate, vaccinate |
Broader | administer, dispense |
Similar to | inject, shoot |