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shooting

'ʃu:tiŋ7 senses · 109 ms
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adj/ˈʃuːtɪŋ/
  1. 1

    Moving or growing quickly

    • Shooting beams of light played over the sea.
  2. 2

    Of a pain, sudden and darting

    • I often feel a shooting pain in my arm.
noun/ˈʃuːtɪŋ/
  1. 1

    an instance of shooting with a gun or other weaponcountable

    • Police are hunting the people who carried out the shootings last week.
  2. 2

    the sport or activity of firing a gun or other weaponuncountable

    • Well, I've always been progun, you know that. It's... yeah, I think adding more guns into a situation is obviously the way to prevent shooting. I think in a way, if we take the guns away, the shootings may escalate.
    • I take part in shooting at the local archery club.
  3. 3

    a district in which people have the right to kill game with firearmscountableuncountable

  4. 4

    the act of one who, or that which, shootscountableuncountable

    • the shooting of rays of light
  5. 5

    a sensation of darting paincountableuncountable

    • a shooting in one's head
  6. 6

    filmingcountableuncountable

verb/ˈʃuːtɪŋ/
  1. 1

    present participle and gerund of shoot; forcefully projectingform-ofgerundparticiple

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