shooting
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English shoting, schoting, from Old English scotung (“shooting”), from Proto-Germanic *skutungō, equivalent to shoot + -ing. Cognate with Dutch schieting, German Erschießung (“shooting”), Swedish skjutning (“shooting”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
shooting
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Noun[edit]
shooting (usually uncountable, plural shootings)
- (countable) An instance of shooting (a person) with a gun.
- Police are hunting the people who carried out the shootings last week.
- (uncountable) The sport or activity of firing a gun.
- The act of one who, or that which, shoots.
- the shooting of an archery club; the shooting of rays of light
- A sensation of darting pain.
- a shooting in one's head
Derived terms[edit]
- shooting brake
- shooting gallery
- shooting iron
- shooting lodge
- shooting preserve
- shooting range
- shooting stick
- skeet shooting
- sure as shooting
- wing shooting
Translations[edit]
instance of shooting
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the sport or activity of firing a gun
Anagrams[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From English
Noun[edit]
shooting m (plural shootings)
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