Definitions For Shoot

noun

  • The act of shooting at targets
  • A new branch

verb

  • Give an injection to
  • Produce buds, branches, or germinate
  • Measure the altitude of by using a sextant
  • Utter fast and forcefully
  • Make a film or photograph of something
  • Record on photographic film
  • Score
  • Fire a shot
  • Hit with a missile from a weapon
  • Spend frivolously and unwisely
  • Throw dice, as in a crap game
  • Variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors
  • Force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing
  • Throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective
  • Move quickly and violently
  • Run or move very quickly or hastily
  • Send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly
  • Cause a sharp and sudden pain in
  • Kill by firing a missile
  • Emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully
  • The part of a new plant that is just beginning to grow above the ground
  • A new branch and its leaves on an established plant
  • An occasion when a movie, television show, etc., is being filmed

Is Shoot a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
8
Words with Friends
7

The word Shoot is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Shoot in a Sentence

  • Does this gun shoot accurately?
  • He shot at the deer.
  • The enemy was shooting at the rescue helicopter.
  • Small green shoots grew from the base of the tree.
  • She is currently on a movie shoot in London.

Synonyms for Shoot

Antonyms for Shoot

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