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Synonyms and Antonyms of shooting
- BB guns shoot small round metal pellets
- soldiers train extensively to learn to shoot accurately and quickly
- hunters can shoot deer only during the legally specified open season
blowing away, bringing down, dropping, picking off, shooting down
blazing, peppering, potshotting, sniping (at)
pistoling (or pistolling), shotgunning
machine-gunning, tommy-gunning
croaking [slang], destroying, dispatching, doing in, felling, icing [slang], killing, slaying
annihilating, blotting out, butchering, decimating, massacring, slaughtering, wiping out
- some show-off shot past all the other skiers on the slope
barreling (or barrelling), belting, blasting, blazing, blowing, bolting, bombing [slang], bowling, breezing, bundling, bustling, buzzing, cannonballing, careening, careering, chasing, coursing, cracking (on), dashing, driving, flying, haring, hastening, highballing, hotfooting (it), humping, hurling, hurrying, hurtling, hustling, hying (or hieing), jetting, jumping, motoring, nipping, pelting, racing, ramming, ripping, rocketing, running, rushing, rustling, scooting, scurrying, scuttling, speeding, stepping, tearing, traveling (or travelling), trotting, whirling, whisking, zipping, zooming
- shooting the lakeside scene while the light lasted
- suddenly the old, broken-down toaster began shooting out sparks
casting, discharging, emanating, emitting, evolving, exhaling, expelling, expiring [archaic], giving out, irradiating, issuing, radiating, releasing, sending (out), throwing out, venting
- you've been wanting to say something since this meeting started, so shoot
belting up [British], clamming up, dummying up, hushing, shutting up, suppressing
- hazel eyes that were brown shot with green
- shot a congratulatory e-mail to his friend as soon as he heard the good news
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