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shooting

noun

1 shooting

The act of firing a projectile:
— His shooting was slow but accurate.

synonym: shot.

Roget 361: killing etc. v.; homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation, iccusion; effusion of blood; blood, blood shed; gore, slaughter, ... show more

Roget 378: pain; suffering, sufferance, suffrance; bodily pain, physical pain, bodily suffering, physical suffering, body pain; mental suffering etc. 828; dolour, ache; ... show more

Roget 622: pursuit; pursuing etc. v.; prosecution; pursuance; enterprise etc. (undertaking) 676; business etc. 625; ... show more

Dutch: schietpartij, schot
Polish: wystrzał, strzał

2 shooting

Killing someone by gunfire.

Dutch: afschot
Polish: strzelanina


Moby thesaurus: acute, acute pain, afflictive, agonizing, antiaircraft fire, archery, atrocious, bane, beheading, bite, biting, blood, bloodletting, bloodshed, boring pain, braining, burning, capital punishment, casting, charley horse ... show more.

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