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Synonyms for shoot

  • verb
  • noun

Most common

spud vegetate let fly dart let off hit film photograph

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

1. Sprout

sprout, germinate, put forth, grow, bud, chit UK, spud, vegetate, pullulate rare, bourgeon rare, acrospire rare

2. Dart

dart, let fly, fly, flash, scoot, spring, hurl, scud

3. Let off

let off, fool away, fool, fritter away, dissipate, fritter

4. Charge

charge, charre UK, buck, tear

Other

fire, strike, photograph, take, hit, film, snap, blast, pass, project, loose, eject

Noun

gun, branch, off-set, spray, spear, fusillade, twig, bucket, bough, book, stem, sprig, graft, scion, offshoot

Antonyms

kayfabe

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Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To launch (forcefully project) (a projectile or similar object). To fire (a weapon that releases a bullet or other projectile).

  2. v. 2

    To launch (forcefully project) (a projectile or similar object). To fire or launch (a projectile).

  3. v. 3

    To launch (forcefully project) (a projectile or similar object). To fire a projectile at (a person or target).

    The hunter shot the deer to harvest its meat.

  4. n. 1

    The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.

Related words

Word family
shootling
Phrases
shoot the breeze shoot down shoot up shoot one's wad shoot one's load shoot one's bolt shoot the shit shoot the bull

Forms

Plural
shoots → guns, branches, off-sets, sprays…
Past participle
shot
e.g. shot → sprouted, germinated, grown, budded…

Example sentences

  • spud Spud means the same thing as potato.
  • vegetate I'd rather die now than vegetate for fifty more years.
  • dart Tom was killed by a poison dart fired from a blowgun.
  • hit Even after it was hit, the pole was still upright.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
shootrising
spudfalling
vegetatefalling
dartrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
hit1, gun1, fly1, bud1
4 letters
take1, book1, fire2, film1, pass1, grow1, fool1, tear1, stem1, snap1, buck1, dart1, chit1, twig1
5 letters
flash1, loose1, blast1, spray1, spear1, graft1, eject2, scion2, scoot1, bough1, sprig
6 letters
charge1, spring1, strike1, branch1, bucket2, sprout1, charre
7 letters
project2, fritter2
8 letters
offshoot2, vegetate3, bourgeon
9 letters
dissipate3, germinate3, fusillade3, pullulate, acrospire
10 letters
photograph3

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (fire2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
darder