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Word entry · 5 letters

shoot

Best crossword clue

"Fire a gun"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ʃuːt/Part of speech verb, nounSorted hoostStarts with SEnds with T1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. give an injection to

Word origin

Inherited from Middle English scheten, schoten, from Old English scēotan, from Proto-West Germanic *skeutan, from Proto-Germanic *skeutaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kéwd-e-ti, from *(s)kewd- (“to shoot, throw”).

Used in a sentence

  • to shoot a gun
  • If you please / To shoot an arrow that self way.
  • The man, in a desperate bid for freedom, grabbed his gun and started shooting anyone he could.

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