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  1. transitive verb To hit, wound, or kill with a missile fired from a weapon.
  2. transitive verb To remove or destroy by firing or projecting a missile: shot out the window.
  3. transitive verb To make (a hole, for example) by firing a weapon.
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  • The way they did the multi-camera shoot is they would set up the cameras and let you know where they were but also let you know that's where they are.
  • Top picks for our shoot were a statement By Malene Birger coat with bow detailing. —  News round-up
  • They begin to shoot -- and they shoot, and shoot, and shoot, and shoot. —  Once Upon a Time...
  • The shoot was actually a night-shoot, which started friday night at 8 p.m., and ended about
  • Newsbusters suggests pro-Muslim bias by most media in Somali shoot-up case —  Refugee Resettlement Watch
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shoot:   shot ·  shooting ·  shoots
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English shoten, from Old English scēotan; see skeud- in Indo-European roots. Interj., alteration of shit.

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  1. from Middle English shoten, schoten, also sheten, sheeten, scheten, sseten (preterit schot, shet, schet, sset, shette, schette, plural shoten, schoten, past participle shoten, schoten, schuten), from Anglo-Saxon sceótan (preterit sceát, past participle scoten) (the English form shoot, from Anglo-Saxon sceótan, being parallel with choose, from Anglo-Saxon ceósan, both these verbs having Middle English forms with e) (Middle English also in weak form shoten, schoten, schotien (preterit schotte), from Anglo-Saxon scotian, shoot, dart, rush); = Old Saxon sceotan, skeotan = OFries. skiata, schiata = Dutch schieten = Middle Low German schēten, Low German scheten = Old High German sciozan, Middle High German schiezen, German schiessen = Icelandic skjōta = Swedish skjuta = Danish skyde = Gothic (Moesogothic) * skiutan (not recorded), shoot, i. e. orig. dart forth, rush or move with suddenness and rapidity; perhaps akin to Sanskrit √ skand, jump, jump upward, ascend, Latin scandere, climb: see scan. From the verb shoot in its early form, or from its cognates, are ult. English sheet, shot, shot, shut, shuttle, shuttle, scot, scud, scuttle, scuttle, skit, skittish, skittle, etc.
  2. from Middle English shote, schote, a shooting, throwing, shoot; from the verb. Cf. shot, which is the older form of the noun from this verb. In senses 8–13 shoot is in part confused with chute (also spelled shute) of like meaning and pronunciation, but of different origin: see, chute.
 

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