Shoot

Definition: Shoot

Shoot

Noun

1. A new branch.

2. The act of shooting at targets; "they hold a shoot every weekend during the summer".

Verb

1. Hit with a missile from a weapon.

2. Kill by firing a missile.

3. Fire a shot.

4. Make a film or photograph of something; "take a scene"; "shoot a movie".

5. Send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly;"shoot a glance".

6. Run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard".

7. Move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office".

8. Play a shot; hit a ball; as in games involving a ball such as golf, hockey, etc.

9. Record on photographic film"I photographed the scene of the accident".

10. : emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully; "The dragon shot fumes and flames out of its mouth.".

11. : cause a shooting pain.

12. : force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing; "inject hydrogen into the balloon".

13. : spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance".

14. : produce buds, branches, or germinate; of plants.

15. : give an injection to; "We injected the glucose into the patient's vein".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "shoot" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Shoot \Shoot\, noun. [French chute. See Chute. Confused with shoot to let fly.]. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Industry

Mining

Multilingual Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Shoot

Expansion

Verb: become larger; (large; ); expand, widen, enlarge, extend, grow, increase, incrassate, swell, gather; fill out; deploy, take open order, dilate, stretch, distend, spread; mantle, wax; grow up, spring up; bud, bourgeon, shoot, sprout, germinate, put forth, vegetate, pullulate, open, burst forth; gain flesh, gather flesh; outgrow; spread like wildfire, overrun.

Killing

Hunt, shoot. n.

Physical Pain

Verb: feel pain, experience pain, suffer pain, undergo pain. Noun: suffer, ache, smart, bleed; tingle, shoot; twinge, twitch, lancinate; writhe, wince, make a wry face; sit on thorns, sit on pins and needles.

Noun: pain; suffering, sufferance, suffrance; bodily pain, physical pain, bodily suffering, physical suffering, body pain; mental suffering; dolour, ache; aching. Verb: smart; shoot, shooting; twinge, twitch, gripe, headache, stomach ache, heartburn, angina, angina pectoris; hurt, cut; sore, soreness; discomfort, malaise; cephalalgia, earache, gout, ischiagra, lumbago, neuralgia, odontalgia, otalgia, podagra, rheumatism, sciatica; tic douloureux, toothache, tormina, torticollis.

Posterity

Child, son, daughter; butcha; bantling, scion; acrospire, plumule, shoot, sprout, olive-branch, sprit, branch; off-shoot, off-set; ramification; descendant; heir, heiress; heir-apparent, heir-presumptive; chip off the old block; heredity; rising generation.

Punishment

Execute; bring to the block, bring to the gallows; behead, decapitate, guillotine; decollate; hang, turn off, gibbet, bowstring, hang draw and quarter; shoot; decimate; burn; break on the wheel, crucify; empale, impale; flay; lynch; electrocute; gas, send to the gas chamber.

Regression

Send; send off, let off, fire off; discharge, shoot; launch, release, send forth, let fly; put in orbit, send into orbit, launch into orbit dash.

Crosswords: Shoot

Romany (vinegar).

It won't look like a suicide if you shoot me from over there (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein)

How do you shoot the devil in the back (The Usual Suspects; writing credit: Christopher McQuarrie)

I could shoot you in the middle of Mardi Gras, and they can't touch me. (Double Jeopardy; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook)

I could shoot the manager while I'm at it, kind of like a bonus (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

Shoot the hostage (Speed; writing credit: Graham Yost)

Shoot 'em down turn around come on Mony (MONY MONY; performing artist: Billy Idol)

Shoot an apple off my head (Clocks; performing artist: COLDPLAY)

Available on the album Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player (Crocodile Rock; performing artist: Elton John)

Aiming to shoot me down (I SHOT THE SHERIFF; performing artist: Eric Clapton)

Gun slugger shoot ‘em up (Son Of A Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You); performing artist: Janet Jackson)

Fight Crime: Shoot Back! (references; author: unknown)

If it's tourist season, why can't we shoot them? (references; author: unknown)

Do you need a silencer if you are going to shoot a mime? (references; author: unknown)

Some people are only alive because it is illegal to shoot them. (references; author: unknown)

Teamwork is essential; it gives the enemy someone else to shoot at. (references; author: unknown)

Shoot It Blue Shoot It Black (1974)

The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971)

Shoot Out (1971)

Don't They? They Shoot Horses (1969)

Shoot Out at Big Sag (1962)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• To Ride, Shoot Straight, And Speak The Truth (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Shoot (reference)

• Shoot - Directory For Commercial Production And Postproduction (reference)

• Shoot! Magazine (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot (reference)

• Shoot the Piano Player (reference)

• Shoot to Kill (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Pentax 35mm-60mm Zoom Point And Shoot Camera (IQZoom60S) (reference)

• NBA Shoot Out (reference)

• Wild West Shoot Out (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Nonfatal and fatal assaultive firearm-related injury rates for males aged 15-24 years, by quarter--United States, 1993-1997. Gun, bullet, shoot, crime, criminal, murder, homicide. Credit: CDC.

This photograph was used in helping to accurately portray a laboratory environment in order to shoot a motion-picture project. Credit: CDC.

Flash and sound ranging survey as practiced by Charles Wilkes Shoot cannon - see flash - measure time till hear sound - determine distance. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

This predatory beetle, Thanasimus formicarius, can eat about three pine shoot beetles daily for up to 3 months. The pine shoot beetle is a destructive pest of pine trees in about 150 U.S. counties. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Don't Shoot Drugs---- : Don't Get Aids!. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Firing the 12"/50 guns of Turret # 4, prior to World War I. Note rangefinder in use atop Turret # 5 and large number of sailors on deck observing the shoot. Credit: NAVY.

An F6F-3 "Hellcat" fighter lands aboard USS Lexington (CV-16) during the "Marianas Turkey Shoot" phase of the battle, 19 June 1944. Note manned 40mm guns in the foreground, and 20mm guns along the starboard side of the flight deck. Credit: NAVY.

Time to shoot. Credit: Library of Congress.

Don't shoot, boss. Credit: Library of Congress.

Some of them just shoot up without much coaxing. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He shall shoot an arrow at it.

Opposite the Quai de la Greve, young men armed with muskets installed themselves with the women to shoot.

It can make you shoot at tax collectors, and miss

The soil, it appears, is suited to the seed, for it has sent its radicle downward, and it may now send its shoot upward also with confidence

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Civil Liberties

Afghanistan

International travel continued to be difficult as both the Taliban and the Northern Alliance threatened to shoot down any planes that flew without their permission over areas of the country that they controlled. (references)

Discrimination

Mexico

For example, the interim president of the Yucatan State Human Rights Commission, Omar Ancona Capetillo, declared that those suffering from HIV/AIDS should be isolated or quarantined, and that if they would attempt to escape from designated facilities, security forces should shoot to kill. (references)

Economic History

India

In the next few years, the spending in this particular segment will shoot up, driven by states like Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, which intend to reform the power sector. (references)

Human Rights

Bulgaria

Police are allowed to shoot any fleeing criminal suspect. (references)

Jamaica

The man's son said that he witnessed the police shoot his father while his hands were on his head. (references)

Romania

Under a 1994 law, police may shoot in order to stop persons who are fleeing from attempts to take them into custody. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "shoot": aimed shoot ♦ bamboo shoot ♦ bean shoot ♦ coppice shoot ♦ cut And Shoot ♦ fire a blank shoot ♦ good shoot ♦ green shoot ♦ lammas shoot ♦ leading shoot ♦ planting shoot ♦ sap shoot ♦ shoot a bird on the wing ♦ shoot a film ♦ shoot a glance ♦ shoot a glance at smb. ♦ shoot a goal ♦ shoot a line ♦ shoot a look full of hate ♦ shoot a match ♦ shoot a photo ♦ shoot again ♦ shoot ahead ♦ shoot ahead of ♦ shoot along ♦ shoot an animal ♦ shoot at ♦ shoot at the target ♦ shoot away ♦ shoot borer ♦ shoot by ♦ shoot competition ♦ shoot craps ♦ shoot dead ♦ shoot dice ♦ shoot down ♦ shoot film ♦ shoot for ♦ shoot forth ♦ shoot forward ♦ shoot from the hip ♦ shoot game ♦ shoot in ♦ shoot in out ♦ shoot in the air ♦ shoot it out ♦ shoot marbles ♦ shoot of olive ♦ shoot off ♦ shoot off one's mouth ♦ shoot on a plant ♦ shoot one's bolt ♦ shoot ones mouth off ♦ shoot one's mouth off ♦ shoot out ♦ shoot past ♦ shoot questions ♦ shoot rapids ♦ shoot smb. dead ♦ shoot smb.'s dead ♦ shoot smb.'s mouth off ♦ shoot that! ♦ shoot the breeze ♦ shoot the bull ♦ shoot the works ♦ shoot through ♦ shoot to pieces ♦ shoot up ♦ shoot wide ♦ shoot with a gun ♦ shoot with a longbow ♦ stool shoot ♦ straight shoot ♦ to shoot ♦ To shoot ahead ♦ To shoot out the lip ♦ To take a shoot ♦ water shoot ♦ whole shoot ♦ young shoot. Additional references.

Beginning with "shoot": shoot-down, shoot-em, shoot-'em, shoot-'em-up, shoot-em-up, shoot-'em-ups, shoot-from-the-hip, shoot-me-before-i-go-mad, shoot-off, shoot-out, shoot-outs, shoot-proof, shoot-the-bad-guys, shoot-to-kill.

Ending with "shoot": off-shoot, photo-shoot, Preston-shoot.

Containing "shoot": beat-'em-up-cum-shoot-'em-up.

Afrikaans

doodskiet (shoot dead), afskiet (discharge, fire, fire off, let off, shoot off). (various references)

Albanian

shtie (abort, fire, inoculate, insert, insinuate, introduce, pour, put), shklluq, shutoj, syth (bud, eye, gemma, germ, leaf bud, mesh, stitch), del mbi, dalje (egress, egression, emergence, emersion, eruption, escape, exit, leakage, orifice, out, outcome, outcrop, outgo, outlet, recourse, recovery, rise, safety valve, salience, salient, vent), bisk (cutting), lëshoj (cede, concede, dart, depasture, discharge, ease, effuse, emit, exhale, fetch, fire, flop, get off, give, give off, give out, give rise to, heave, heave a sigh, issue, let, let fall, let go, let loose, let off, pay, project, radiate, relieve, send, set on, shed, sluice, throw down, touch off, trip, unbrace, unbridle, uncork, uncouple, unleash, unmuzzle, unrein, untuck, utter), bimëz (seedling), hedh shtat, filiz (bine, bourgeon, braird, offspring, seedling, sprout), gjuaj (aim, chase, Chevy, hit, Hunt, prey, prey upon, sling, strike, throw), gjuajtje (hit, kick, shooting, stroke), gjueti (chase, Chevy, Hunt, hunting, venery), govatë (cavity, chute, depression, dough-trough, eye socket, eyehole, hollow, manger, seed-can, stall, tray, trough, washtub), drejtoj (address, administer, administrate, aim, aim at, align, Aline, bend, boss, canalize, Cann, carry on, chair, channel, command, con, conduct, direct, drive, funnel, govern, guide, head, keep, lead, level, manage, navigate, operate, order, pilot, point, preside, rectify, refer, rein, relegate, rule, set, shirk, show, shunt, superintend, supervise, tend, train, unbend, vector), çelje (peep), klithmë (bell, cry, note, scream, screech, squall, squeal, yowl), zbraz (clear, clear out, deplenish, deplete, discharge, drain, draw, dump, effuse, empty, empty out, evacuate, exhaust, flux, Lade, make a hole in, outpour, overrun, pour out, purge, tap, unload, unlock, void), marr në fotografi, qëlloj (batter, clip, clout, conk, discharge, fetch, flap, get, hammer, hit, impinge, knock, lay out, paddle, poke, pop, pot, pound, rifle, slap, slug, smite, strike, switch), qitje (discharge, firing, gunning, gunshot, shooting, shot), rritem (advance, become adult, climb, develop, grow up, move, redouble, run, thicken), terrorizoj (terrorize), ulluk shkarkimi (sump), vend gjuetie (hunting ground), vras (assassinate, bag, bruise, bump off, damage, despatch, dispatch, do away with, drop, finish, finish off, get, hurt, injure, kill, Lynch, make away with oneself, murder, poniard, put the sword, puzzle, slay, stab, stone to death, waste, zap), kaloj befas. (various references)

Arabic 

‏أطلق النار في الهواء, ‏إنزلق (run, sideslip, skid, slid, slide, slip, slip by, slip up, slither, swim, toboggan), ‏إطلاق صاروخ, ‏إطلاق السهم, ‏إطلاع النبات للبراعم, ‏إصطاد (entrap, go gunning for, gun, gun for, hunt), ‏برعم (bloom, blossom, bud, burgeon, button, flower, gemma, germinate, growth, in bud, in the bud, leaf, sprout), ‏أطلق نحو الهدف, ‏خرج للصيد, ‏أطلق النار (cannon, discharge, lead, pull), ‏أطلق (cast, cast off, divorce, draw, eject, emanate, enlarge, erupt, evolve, fire, generalize, give off, liberate, loose, open, project, relax, release, slip, speed, spout, toss, touch off, unchain, unlock, utter), ‏أصاب (bilge, blast, come, get, hit, infect, inflict, pick off, strike), ‏أخذ صورة, ‏رحلة صيد, ‏برز (accentuate, break out, bring out, bulge, come into view, display, emerge, excrete, feature, form, germinate, heighten, image, jut, outcrop, outdo, point, project, protrude, raise, relieve, shine, show up, spring, stand out, stick, stick out), ‏أعدم (be executed, despatch, dispatch, execute, guillotine, hang out, put to death, string up, swing), ‏تدفق (affluence, afflux, bubble, discharge, drift, flow, flowing, fluency, flux, gush, inflow, influx, inrush, issue, jet, onrush, outbreak, outflow, outpouring, pour, roll, shoot up, slop, spirt, spout, spurt, stream, surge, throng), ‏مطره بالأسئلة, ‏نما (develop, expand, flower, gather, grow, increase, prosper, thrive, unfold), ‏نبتة (plant, seedling, wort), ‏لقح (fecundate, fertilize, impregnate, inject, inoculate, pollinate, vaccinate), ‏قتل (assassinate, assassination, bag, butcher, croak, death, despatch, dispatch, do in, end, finish, fire, homicide, immolate, kill, killing, knock off, lay out, manslaughter, murder, poleaxe, procure, put down, put to death, slay, take for a ride), ‏وجه ضربة (deliver), ‏جر اللسان, ‏غصن (bough, branch, crease, crumple, sprig), ‏جرح (break, cut, flesh wound, gash, hurt, incision, injure, injury, lacerate, laceration, lesion, maim, make mischief, maul, pierce, slash, stab, sting, wing, wound, wounding), ‏تبرعم (bud, budding, sprout, tap), ‏سدد (aim, charge, clear, discharge, hit, predominate), ‏صور فوتغرافيا (mug, photograph), ‏صور (characterize, depict, describe, film, paint, photo, pic, picture, portray, snap, take, typify), ‏صوب (range, shine, sight), ‏فسيلة, ‏حقن (grout, inject, injection, jab, squirt, staunch). (various references)

Bulgarian 

покарвам (braird, burgeon out, germinate, grow, pullulate, push out, put out, sprout, thrust forth), лъч (beam, gleam, shaft), ловен парк (forest, game-preserve), лов (chase, field sports, gunning, hunting, shikar, shooting), бързей (overfall, purl, rapids, riffle, rip), бодеж (stab, stitch), бия (bang, beat, chime, club, curry, feeze, go, hammer, hide, hit, kill, knoll, lace, lather, lay, lick, maul, palpitate, peal, pelt, pulsate, pulse, ram, ramrod, ring, rough up, strike, swingle, thrash, thresh, wallop, welt, whale, whip, whop, zap), пъхвам (dive, pop in, stuff), пускам по улей, пръскам (bespatter, frizz, scatter, shed, spatter, spit, splash, sprinkle, squirt, throw, throw about), прелитам (flit, hop, migrate, wing), издънка (offset, offshoot, outgrowth, scion, slip, sprig, sprout, sucker, switch, tiller), приказвам (jaw, natter, prattle, speak, talk), мустаче (antenna, barb, barbell, cirrus, feeler, runner, tendril, tentacle, trailer), подвиквам (utter cries, whoop), играя (act, dance, disport oneself, do, enact, lead, perform, play, present, represent, run about, sport, support, twitch, wanton, waver), изстрелване (projection, shooting, shot), изстрелвам (loose, project, set off, shoot away, shoot off, throw, touch off, volley, wing), изсипвам (empty, send forth, spew, spill, tip out, unload), израстък (appendage, appendix, excrescence, growth, intumescence, knot, knurl, nub, outgrowth, process, sucker, verruca), изхвърчавам, изкарвам бързо, изпускам (elide, emit, exhale, exhaust, exude, give off, heave, leave out, let fall, let out, lose, muff, omit, ooze, pour, put forth, quit, release, run, throw out, utter, vent), изпращам бързо (hurry, rush, rush up), праг (doorstep, drop, groundsel, sill, step, threshold), ходя на лов (go shooting, gun for, shikar), стрък (blade, growth, stem, stick), стрелям (discharge, fire, kill, loose, pop, pot), стрелвам се, стрелба (field sports, fire, firing, gunning, shooting, shot), стоварвам (bring down on, dump, land, land with, set down), удрям (bang against, bash, beat, biff, blast, bruise, bust, catch, douse, hammer, heel, hit, impact, jam on, knap, knock, lash, lay, peg at, plump, poke, pole-ax, pound, ram, set, slam, slam on, smash, smite, strike, strike in, thunder, wallop, zap), свличане (fall, slide), снимам (photo, photograph, snap, take), спускам се (decline, drop, fall, fling, flow, get down, haul down, lour, lower, pitch, shut down, shut in, sink, step down, swoop, take downhill), разпуквам се (break out into blossom, expand), залагам (lay, lay down, mortgage, pawn, pledge, pop, put, put up, stake, venture), хвърлям (aim, broadcast, cast, cob, dart, dash, draw, fling, fling down, flung, heave, hurl, hurtle, jerk, launch, pass, pitch, plunk, pounce, precipitate, project, send, shadow, shed, shoot out, sling, sock, throw, throw off, throw out, toss, toss about, whop), застрелвам (blast, plug, pot, shoot down, shoot up), филиз (bine, offset, outgrowth, scion, spear, sprout, tendril, tiller), шутирам, гръмвам (pop, pot), група ловци, говоря (converse, harangue, parley, reflect, slur, speak, talk, vocalize), взривявам (blast, bust), вейка (offset, rod, sprig, switch, twig, windle-straw), остра болка, никна (spring, sprout), мятам (cast, drive, fling, launch, pitch, put on, sell, send, shaft, sling, slip over, spoof, swing, throw, toss, tumble about), състезание по стрелба, щрака ме. (various references)

Chinese 

打 (beat, break, build, calculate, dozen, fetch, fight, from, issue, make, mix up, since, strike, tie up), 射擊 (fire), 射击 (fired, shooting, shot, Shots), 射 (radio-). (various references)

Czech

střílet (fire, plug). (various references)

Danish

skyde (fire). (various references)

Dutch

schieten (fire), vuren (fire, firing), scheut (arrow), paffen (fire), loot (child, layer, offspring, young). (various references)

Esperanto

pafi (fire), ŝoso. (various references)

Faeroese

skjóta (fire). (various references)

Farsi 

جوانه زدن (Branch, Bud, Burgeon, Erupt, Germinate, Grain, Leaf, Nip, Peep, Ratoon, Sprit, Sprout, Spurt, Tiller), دردکردن , رویش شاخه , رویش انشعابی , رگه معدن (Lode), رهاشدن , درد (Agony, Ailment, Distress, Pain, Pang), امپول زدن , فیلمبرداری کردن , عکسبرداری کردن (Photograph), زدن (Abaction, Amputate, Attain, Beat, Bop, Bruise, Clout, Cut, Haze, Imprint, Inject, Koran, Lam, Light, Lodge, Mallet, Nail, Play, Poke, Pop, Slap, Slat, Smite, Snip, Strike, Stroke, Whack), حرکت تندوچابک , گلوله داشتن , پرتاب کردن (Hurl, Jaculate, Pelt, Project, Shove, Sling, Slog, Thrust, Unsling), انشعاب (Divergence, Junction, Offshoot, Ramification, Tributary). (various references)

Finnish

verso (tiller), ampua (discharge, fire, launch). (various references)

French

tirer (shunting), pousse (green shoot, shooting, short-windedness). (various references)

Frisian

sjitte (fire). (various references)

German

schießen (fire, gun, hit, jet, pot, punt, score, send, shoot away, shooting, sprout, spurt), trieb (access, coasted, desire, drive, impetus, impulse, impulsion, inclination, instinct, push, sprout, tided, urge, wreaked). (various references)

Greek 

πυροβολώ (fire, fire arm, shot), βλαστός (offshoot). (various references)

Hebrew 

לנטוע (establish, implant, insert, plant, set up), נטיעה (plant, planting, sapling), זרד (sprig, twig, wicker), חוטר (branch, pointer, rod, shaft, slip, twig), זלזל (sprig, tendril, twig), זמורה (branch, sprout, tendril, twig, vine twig), פרגול (knout, lash, scourge, whip), שריג (twig), נצר (descendant, offshoot, offspring, scion, sprig, sprout), תחרות קליעה, יחור (slip, twig), לצוד (angle, captivate, capture, catch, gun, seize), לצמוח (accrue, grow, spring up, sprout, turn out, wax), להסריט (film), להרוג ביריה, לירות (fire, pour water, throw), ירה, ירי (fire, shooting, shot), שבשבה (branch). (various references)

Hungarian

lövés (ammunition, crack, discharge, firing, gunfire, gunning, munition, pot, round, shooting, shot, sitting shot), zuhogó (beating, mill stream, pelting, torrential), vadászterület (chase, hunting country, hunting ground, range, shooting, veld, veldt), vadásztársaság (hunting party), vadászat (chase, hunt, hunting, shikar, shooting), szemétlerakó (landfill, refuse dump), surrantó (hopper), sarjadék (offspring, scion, sprig, sprout), nyilallás (pang, shooting, stitch, twitch), csúszda (chute, pull hole, slide). (various references)

Indonesian

saluran (canal, channel, dike, duct), tunas (bud), perburuan (persecution, prey, the hunt), menembak (fire), cangkok (cutting, false, graft, transplant). (various references)

Inuktitut

qukiqpaa (to shoot). (various references)

Italian

sparare (fire, firing, go, go off, let off, score, shooting), tirare (be tight, blow, draft, drag, draught, draw, feel tight, haul, heave, land, lug, pluck, pull, stretch, tend, throw, tighten, to pull, tug, twitch, wheel), getto (cast, casting, fling, flush, jet, putting, shy, spirt, spout, spray, sprout, spurt, throw), fucilare (shoot dead). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

新芽　 (bud, sprout), 新芽 (bud, sprout), シャモット煉瓦 (beautiful, chamotte brick, champagne, champignon, Champs Elysees, chandelier, chanson, chansonnier, Chantilly, charade, Charlotte, charm, charming, chou a la creme, cream-filled pastry, Schubert, shallot, shampoo, Shangri-la, shank, shoes, shoeshine, shooting script, shower, ski jump, sugar, sugar coat, sugar cut, sure, surrealism). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しんめ (bud, sacred horse, sprout), シュート . (various references)

Korean 

싹. (various references)

Manx

tilgey (abort, cast, cast off, casting, chuck, discharge, disgorge, ejection, fling, hurl, launch; throwing, miscarriage, miscarry, misconception; found, moulting, pitch, plunge, pot, precipitate, precipitation, project, projection, shedding, sling, throw, toss, toss up, toss up coin, tossing, void, vomit, vomiting), thalloo shelg (chase), sthole (stole, stool), skinney (whisk away), shliawinane (chute, glide, runner, slide, slipway), shelg (chase, hunt, prey, prowl, pursuit, quarry, run, spleen, the field, venery), lhiggey (act, act pretend, allow, broach, delay, discharge, fire, firing, go off, heave, ignore, let, let down, let off, letting, level, loose, permission, permit, pierce, remission, shoot up, shooting, slip, suffer, water pipe), gunneragh, glackey (adopt, adopt as report, apprehension, buckle, catch, catch out, clutch, holdfast, input, reception, seize, shot, snatch), eas (cascade, cataract, chute, waterfall), ceau (aim, carry, consume, corner, corner on road, dart, fall, hang, last, loose, pass, pelt, rain, rake, run out, shower; launch, shy; weather, spend, throw, wear). (various references)

Pig Latin

ootshay.(various references)

Polish

strzelać (fire). (various references)

Portuguese

disparar (bolt, discharge, fire, go off, gun, let off, poop, pop, to shoot, touch off), tiro (chase, enfilade, gunning, gunshot, pop, shot), renovo (bud, offset, sprout, tiller), rebento (browse, bud, chit, gemma, layer, offset, offshoot, plant, scion, slip, sprig, sprout, twig), atirar (accelerate, aim, bandy, bowl, bung, cast, cob, dart, deliver, detrude, drive, fling, give over, gun, heave, launch, loose, pitch, project, pump up, put, sling, strike, throw). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

disparar (to shoot). (various references)

Romanian

împuşca (bag, execute, fire, gun, pip, pistol, pop, pot, rifle). (various references)

Russian 

стрелять (sniped, snipes, sniping). (various references)

Scottish

calbh (a shoot, cape, gushing of water or bloodfrom calbh, head, headland), bachlag (a shoot). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

streljati, snimiti (film, lens out, photograph, record), utakmica u gađanju, ustreliti (pick off), rudište, pucati (fire, plop, plug), počni, nagnut oluk za istovar, mladica (imp, offset, offspring, spear, sprout), lov (battue, chase, hunt, hunting, kill, shikar, shooting), krenuti prečicom, izdanak (burgeon, imp, off shoot, offshoot, offspring, outgrowth, scion), gađati (aim, snipe), baciti (bung, cast, chuck, dart, dash, fling, heave, hurl, hurtle, peg, pitch, project, slap, sling, throw, throw out, toss), šutirati. (various references)

Spanish

tirar (burn, cast, discard, dispose of, drag, draw, draw out, fire, haul, heave, kiss off, knock off, lay, pitch, print, pull, tell off, throw, throw about, throw aside, throw away, throw out, to throw, toss away, toss over, tug, turn out), disparar (discharge, fire, gun, let off, loose off, play on, release), brote (bud, burgeon, outbreak, shooting, sprout, upsurge). (various references)

Sranan

sutu (fire). (various references)

Swedish

skjuta (fire, pop, push, send, shove, slide, work), skott (bulkhead, charge, cutting, pop, shoot on a plant, shot, sprout), jakt (chase, Chevy, Hunt, hunting, pursuit, yacht), fotografera (photo, photograph, take photographs), filma (act in a film, film), arkebusera. (various references)

Thai

หน่อไม้ (bamboo shoot). (various references)

Turkish

sancımak (ache, twinge), sürgün vermek (shoot forth), sürgün (banishment, bud, deportation, deportee, exile, expatriation, expellee, growth, ostracism, outgrowth, outlaw, outlawry, proscription, relegation, spine, spray, sprout, tiller, transport, transportation, twig), atış yapmak (have one's inning, have one's innings, tee off), şut çekmek, şiddetli akıntı, avlanmak (be hunted, go out hunting, hawk, Hunt), avlamak (account, bag, chase, Chevy, chivvy, chivy, fish, gun, hawk, Hunt, kill, prey on, prey upon), avlak (hunting ground), av (catch, chase, fowling, Hunt, hunting, kill, killing, pickup, prey, quarry, shikar, shooting, sporting), atmak (affix, beat, blow, blow out, cashier, cast, cast away, cast off, catapult, chuck, chuck away, chuck out, dart, dash, deliver, discharge, doff, draw the longbow, drop, eject, elbow out, elbow smb. out, eliminate, fabricate, fetch, fib, flash, fling, fling away, fling out, fuse, fuze, give a kick, heave, hurl, inflict, insert, invent, junk, launch, let fly, loose, loose off, order off, peg, peg at, pelt, pitch, precipitate, project, pulsate, pulse, put, scutch, send, shoot out, shy, sling, tell a fib, tell lies, throw, throw away, throw into, toss, uncork, utter, void), atma (banishment, bragging, cast, chuck, ejectment, elimination, fling, heave, heaving, hurl, inset, ouster, pelt, postpone, projectile, shy, tell us another, throw, throwing, volley), budak (knag, knar, knob, knot, knurl, snag), ateş etme (fire, firing, pop), fırlatmak (aim, blast off, bung, cast, cast away, catapult, chuck, chuck away, dart, eject, fling, hurl, hurtle, launch, pelt, project, send, shoot out, shy, swing, throw, toss, whisk), atış (beat, burst, chuck, firing, fling, gunshot, inning, innings, pistol shot, projection, put, shooting, shot, shy, throw), aşı yapmak (inoculate, vaccinate), öldürmek (assassinate, bump off, carry off, croak, cut down, destroy, dispatch, do away with, do in, do one's job for one, drop, erase, exterminate, get, get rid of, give smb. his quietus, ice, kill, kill off, knock off, knock out, liquidate, make away with, murder, off, put away, put down, put to death, rub out, send to glory, shoot dead, slay, take off, take smb.'s life, waste, wipe out, zap), çekmek (abide, absorb, arrest, attract, be a sufferer by, be a sufferer from, be cursed with smth., bear, bear with, captivate, carry, catch, charm, claw, conjugate, decline, drag, draw, draw off, draw on, draw out, dwindle, engage, engross, extract, fetch, glamor, glamour, go through, go to scale at, grind, grip, haul, heave, hitch, hoist, hold, inflect, inhale, invite, last out, lug, lump, magnetize, pass through, pique, pluck, prepossess, pull, pull away, pull over, pull up, receive, record, run up, scale in, scale out, schlep, schlepp, shrink, sip, siphon, siphon off, soak, soak in, sop up, stand the racket, stretch, suck, suffer, sustain, syphon, syphon off, take, take after, take one's medicine, throw back, toss, tow, tow away, tug, turn the scale at, undergo, up with, whisk, withdraw), çekim yapmak, ateş etmek (bear on, bear upon, discharge, gun, let fly, let fly at smb., loose, loose off, plug, pop, shoot off, take a pop at), hızla geçmek (shoot ahead of, zip by), yuvarlanmak (bowl, roll, roll over, roll up, trickle, trundle, trundle along, tumble, wallow, welter, wheel), vuruş (bat, battery, batting, beat, beating, chop, crack, crusher, cut, hack, hit, impact, knock, plug, pulse, scoop, shot, sock, strike, stroke, swat, thwack, whack, wipe), vurmak (bang, bat, beat, beat down, bruise, bust, catapult, catch, chime, clap, clip, clout, dash, deal, grass, gun, hit, impinge, inflict, kayo, knock, land, lay out, lay to, Lodge, Mall, nail, pack, percuss, pip, plant, plonk, plug, plunk, pound, prick, pummel, punch, putt, ram, shoot off, slog, smash, sock, strike, stroke, stub, swat, swinge, switch, whack, zap), vurma (blip, dash, hit, knock, knocking, percussion, percussive, pound, pounding, strike, swat), perdahlamak (calender, glaze, polish, satin, sleek, vitrify), mesafe (breadth, distance, interval, journey, margin, remove, space, span, way), fışkın (sprig, sucker), iğne yapmak (give an injection, inject), çekim (attraction, conjugation, declension, draw, filming, flection, flexion, flexional, force of gravity, gravitation, gravitational, gravity, inflection, inflexion, pull, shooting, shot), fotoğraf çekme, filizlenmek (bud, burgeon, germ, germinate, pullulate, shoot forth, shoot out, sprout), filiz (bud, burgeon, button, cion, growth, offshoot, ore, outgrowth, rod, spine, spray, sprig, sprout, tendril, tiller), fazla gelmek (outnumber), füze fırlatma, zonklamak (jump, pulsate), fırlamak (bolt, boom, bounce, break, burst, dart, dash, dodge, fling, flirt, fly off, fly out, goggle, high-tail, hurl oneself, hurtle, jump, leap up, make a dash, shoot ahead, shoot off, shoot out, shoot up, skyrocket, soar, spring, stand out, start, start up, steepen, tear, whip, whisk, zoom), keresteyi rendeleme. (various references)

Turkmen 

tьpeсlemek, atmak (put, throw). (various references)

Ukrainian

стрімкий рух (dash, lunge), стріляти, уразити (barb, pinprick, wound), ріст (growing, growth, plant, upgrowth), шпурляти (chop, chuck, dash, shove, shove down), водоспад (cataract, falls, waterfall), випромінювати (beam, emit, eradiate, irradiate, radiate, send out), змагання з стрільби, брунька (bud, burgeon, button, oculus), приступ (access, accession, attack, flush, spasm), полювати (chase, prey), полювання (chase, chivvy, chivy, hunting, sporting, venation). (various references)

Vietnamese 

chồi cây (offset), cái măng thác nước cầu nghiêng, cành non (browse). (various references)

Welsh

saethu (blast, dart, fire), impyn (graft, scion), impio (bud, graft, sprout), hodi (ear), egino (germinate, sprout), blaguryn (bud, sprout). (various references)

2. bulug, bil, isimu. (various references)

brachia, brachii, brachiis, brachio, brachiorum, brachium, cacumen, cacumina, cacumine, cacuminibus, contendam, contendas, contendat, contende, contendebant, contendebat, contendentes, contendere, contenderit, contendet, contendi, contendimus, contendis, contendit, contendite, contenditis, contenta, contenti, contentus, frutex, germen, germina, germine, germini, germinis, palmes, palmitem, palmites, palmitum, planta, sarmentorum, subole, subolem, suboles, surculus, virga, vitulamina. (various references)

fysan, ofsceotan, sceotan. (various references)

tendrillon. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "shoot": shooter, shooters, shooting, shootings, shootout, shootouts, shoots. (additional references)

Words ending with "shoot": bumbershoot, crapshoot, offshoot, outshoot, overshoot, reshoot, troubleshoot, undershoot, upshoot. (additional references)

Words containing "shoot": bumbershoots, crapshooter, crapshooters, crapshoots, offshoots, outshooting, outshoots, overshooting, overshoots, peashooter, peashooters, reshooting, reshoots, sharpshooter, sharpshooters, sharpshooting, sharpshootings, snapshooter, snapshooters, trapshooter, trapshooters, trapshooting, trapshootings, troubleshooter, troubleshooters, troubleshooting, troubleshoots, undershooting, undershoots, upshooting, upshoots. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Shoot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ahoot, Ashot, choot, Eshkolot, esholt, Eshwood, gshot, pshoow, schot, shait, sheat, shio, Shito, Shmonov, sho, shoate, Shobo, shoft, sholt, shont, Shooch, shood, shooe, shool, Shoon, shoosh, shoota, Shoto, Shott, shouf, shoult, Shouth, Shozo, Shroot, Shutov, shutt, shwoo, shwooh, shwooo, skoot, sloot, spoot, sroot, stoot, sut, swoot, t'hooft, thoot. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: hoots, sooth.

-1 letter: hoot, host, hots, oohs, oots, shoo, shot, soot, soth, tosh.

-2 letters: hot, oho, ohs, ooh, oot, sot, tho, too.

-3 letters: ho, oh, os, sh, so, to.

+1 letter: bhoots, booths, cohost, photos, shoots, smooth, soothe, sooths, tholos, tooths.

+2 letters: bowshot, cahoots, cohorts, cohosts, coolths, dhootis, hooters, hotdogs, hotrods, hotshot, hotspot, ooliths, outshot, photogs, photons, potshot, reshoot, sheroot, shooter, smooths, smoothy, soothed, soother, soothes, soothly, thorons, toeshoe, toyshop, upshoot.

+3 letters: besmooth, besoothe, bowshots, cheroots, cohosted, dhooties, dropshot, forsooth, holdouts, hoodiest, hookiest, hooklets, hoopster, hootches, hootiest, hoptoads, hornitos, hotboxes, hotfoots, hothouse, hotshots, hotspots, housetop, isophote, lithosol, lothsome, moonshot, offshoot, oophytes, orthoses, orthosis, otoliths, outhouse, outhowls, outshone, outshoot, outshout, overshot, photoset, pooftahs, posthole, postshow, potholes, pothooks, pothouse, potshots, reshoots, resmooth, sawtooth, scrootch, sheroots, shofroth, shooters, shooting, shootout, showboat, smoothed, smoothen, smoother, smoothes, smoothie, smoothly, soothers, soothest, soothing, soothsay, southron, tarboosh, theologs, theorbos, toeholds, toeshoes, toolshed, torchons, toyshops, typhoons, upshoots, woolhats.