shoot
hit with a missile from a weapon
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,457 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 6,972 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
verb
- hit with a missile from a weapon also: hit, pip
- kill by firing a missile also: pip
- fire a shot also: blast the gunman blasted away
- make a film or photograph of something also: film, take take a sceneshoot a movie
- send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly shoot a glance
- run or move very quickly or hastily also: dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash She dashed into the yard
shoot in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Various pirates enter and shoot the old man.
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870 · Various · Chapter 1
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Her cheeks were dark red and her eyes seemed to shoot forth flashes of lightning.
Cornelli · Johanna Spyri · Chapter 1
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He felt tempted to tell the man to lead the worthless animal away and shoot it.
The High School Boys' Canoe Club · H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock · Chapter 1
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I content myself with teaching the young idea how to shoot, without indulging in such dangerous practices myself.
Representative Plays by American Dramatists — Love in '76 · Oliver Bell Bunce · Chapter 1
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He saw another man shoot his mother and a taller young man, whom he did not know, shoot his father.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1