Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not hit by shot. Not shot; not discharged; not fired.
- To take or draw the shot or ball out of: as, to
unshot a gun.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To remove the shot from, as from a shotted gun; to unload.
- adjective Not hit by a shot; also, not discharged or fired off.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not having been
shot . - adjective Not discharged or fired off.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The gun stays on “safe” and the bird flies away not only unscathed but unshot-at.
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The gun stays on “safe” and the bird flies away not only unscathed but unshot-at.
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But as Nick Clegg has given the country yet another barrel full of fish this time trying to shove it along on a bandwagon provided by The Sun it would have been remiss of them to let it pass by unshot.
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But any inkling of them was gone the second John appeared in the doorway of the bar, unshot, unstabbed, as casual and composed in his cop-like way as when he went in.
Going Too Far Jennifer Echols 2009
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The uncut video was shown in the French appeals court during this case, and what it showed a scence where the purported dead child Al Dura—after he was supposedly shot by the IDF—very much alive, unshot and peeking through his hands while lying on the ground pretending to be dead.
Critic of Palestinian Video Wins French Case - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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What combination of verbal jiu-jitsu would I apply to Hairy so that he would leave me unshot, no harm, no foul?
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And quickly beneath the lintel in the porch he strung his bow and took from the quiver an arrow unshot before, messenger of pain.
The Argonautica 2008
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The uncut video was shown in the French appeals court during this case, and what it showed a scence where the purported dead child Al Dura—after he was supposedly shot by the IDF—very much alive, unshot and peeking through his hands while lying on the ground pretending to be dead.
Critic of Palestinian Video Wins French Case - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Then, I heard a sound that sent me leaping down, at a mad rate — it was the rattle of bolts being unshot.
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August 9, 1976, in Alexandra, of a "[g] unshot wound of abdomen … whilst riotously assaulting the police — homicide — anaesthesia and surgery competent."
'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005
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