shooting

Plural

shootings

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

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

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.the sport or activity of firing a gun or other weapon

   • I take part in shooting at the local archery club.
   • 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.

2. 2.a district in which people have the right to kill game with firearms

3. 3.the act of one who, or that which, shoots

4. 4.an instance of shooting with a gun or other weapon

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

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.present participle and gerund of shoot; forcefully projecting

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