Thesaurus results for GUNS

guns 1 of 2

noun

plural of gun

as in weapons

large firearms (as cannons or rockets) the field commander called for the big guns to be deployed for the full-scale assault

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guns

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verb

present tense third-person singular of gun

as in shoots

to strike with a missile from a gun traded stories of the Wild West, when outlaws gunned men down in broad daylight and in cold blood

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Noun

Esmeralda Muñoz, 70, said her family was furious that agents showed up to their home in full tactical gear with guns drawn to arrest her husband before dawn. — Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2026 Multiple gunmen wanted in Northwest Baltimore shooting Disturbing video obtained exclusively by WJZ shows two men running with guns drawn near the intersection of Muth Avenue and North Forest Park Avenue in broad daylight. — Tara Lynch, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026 By now, Bobby Davis and Hoghead Henry were dead from the collision of guns and booze. — Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2026 Investigators later seized three guns and ammunition from Bjornholt’s home. — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2026 Three guard members discharged their guns in the encounter, Carroll said. — Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026 Fencebridge now denies that figure, stating that the comment was made erroneously, and the figure is closer to $24 million — $13 million for ammunition and $11 million for guns. — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2026 Activists say Israeli authorities do little to stop attacks that involve weapons ranging from slingshots to guns. — ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026 Assassin is a real-life game played around the world, with NERF guns or water pistols most commonly used as the assassination method. — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026

Verb

Both guns the suspect used in the shooting were acquired legally in San Antonio in 2017, Davis said. — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 3 Mar. 2026 The military seemingly guns her down during a confrontation with Hopper and Eleven. — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Jan. 2026 One dog manages to escape the store, but Noem quickly catches up to it and brutally guns it down. — Jack Dunn, Variety, 12 Aug. 2025

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Noun

In modern nuclear weapons, conventional explosives set off a fission reaction—the splitting of big atoms—whose intensity then ignites a fusion reaction that combines light atoms.

— Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Obituaries for nuclear weapons simply misapprehend the role these arms have played since 1945.

— Eric S. Edelman, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026

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Verb

There’s a level of seriousness that belies the 90-minute comedy film he’s made, which features an imbecilic white rapper who speaks in Caribbean-British slang and a contraption that shoots bullets out of one’s rear end.

— Lacey Rose, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2026
The episode ends with Lee running for his life while McCann shoots into the darkness of the treeline.

— Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of shoots

Noun

An artillery crew soldier from the Separate Rifle Battalion of the National Police in the Zaporizhzhia region prepares shells for a 155-mm Bosnian M94 howitzer in a dugout during a combat mission in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on October 15, 2026.

— Anastasiia Parafeniuk, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2026
Rheinmetall has opened a new weapons manufacturing facility in Telford, England, restoring Britain’s ability to produce large-caliber tank and artillery guns domestically.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 22 Oct. 2026

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Ramiro Benavides, director of a middle school mariachi in the district, drills his students not only on how to play their instruments and sing, but also on how to bring a theatrical and dramatic flair to their performances.

— Jessica Hill, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
Dewan is also filming The Rookie, so things are getting challenging as Val drills her on the technique — even on set between takes.

— Katie Campione, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026

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And while Iran is believed to supply cutting-edge components like guidance systems, the Houthis can manufacture much of their weaponry domestically, and at a much lower cost than the state-of-the-art interceptors used by the Saudis.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026
If Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy needed a reminder that Ukraine’s war with Russia may well be decided in the skies by the nation with the most advanced weaponry, then it was delivered this week – seemingly by the United States.

— Gerard Toal, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026

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