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- BB guns shoot small round metal pellets
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- hunters can shoot deer only during the legally specified open season
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- some show-off shot past all the other skiers on the slope
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- barrel,
- belt,
- blast,
- blaze,
- blow,
- bolt,
- bomb
- [slang],
- bowl,
- breeze,
- bundle,
- bustle,
- buzz,
- cannonball,
- careen,
- career,
- chase,
- course,
- crack (on),
- dash,
- drive,
- fly,
- hare,
- hasten,
- hie,
- highball,
- hotfoot (it),
- hump,
- hurl,
- hurry,
- hurtle,
- hustle,
- jet,
- jump,
- motor,
- nip,
- pelt,
- race,
- ram,
- rip,
- rocket,
- run,
- rush,
- rustle,
- scoot,
- scurry,
- scuttle,
- speed,
- step,
- tear,
- travel,
- trot,
- whirl,
- whisk,
- zip,
- zoom
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- shooting the lakeside scene while the light lasted
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- mug,
- photo,
- photograph,
- snap
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- suddenly the old, broken-down toaster began shooting out sparks
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- you've been wanting to say something since this meeting started, so shoot
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- hazel eyes that were brown shot with green
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- shot a congratulatory e-mail to his friend as soon as he heard the good news
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nounSynonyms & Antonyms of shoot (Entry 2 of 2)
- there'd be a shoot of pain from that molar whenever I bit down
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“Shoot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shoot. Accessed 7 Aug. 2022.
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The first known use of shoot was before the 12th century
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