SHOOTS Synonyms: 341 Similar and Opposite Words

shoots 1 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of shoot

as in fires

to cause (a projectile) to be driven forward with force BB guns shoot small round metal pellets

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as in blasts

to cause a weapon to release a missile with great force soldiers train extensively to learn to shoot accurately and quickly

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as in pops

to strike with a missile from a gun hunters can shoot deer only during the legally specified open season

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as in rushes

to proceed or move quickly some show-off shot past all the other skiers on the slope

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as in photographs

to take a photograph of shooting the lakeside scene while the light lasted

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as in casts

to throw or give off suddenly the old, broken-down toaster began shooting out sparks

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as in shouts

to voice one's opinions freely with force you've been wanting to say something since this meeting started, so shoot

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as in sprinkles

to mark with small spots especially unevenly hazel eyes that were brown shot with green

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as in sends

to cause to go or be taken from one place to another shot a congratulatory e-mail to his friend as soon as he heard the good news

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shoots

2 of 2

noun

plural of shoot

as in limbs

a branch of a main stem especially of a plant collected the most tender shoots for the vegetable dish he was making

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as in pains

a sharp unpleasant sensation usually felt in some specific part of the body there'd be a shoot of pain from that molar whenever I bit down

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Recent Examples of shoots

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The armed immigration agent then shoots Melanie in response, and his partner subsequently dies. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2026 Even when his characters do use a computer screen, Okita shoots so tight on the cursor and characters, even their intricate composition appears tactile and sculpted. — James Marsh, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026 Cinematographer Kira Kelly shoots powerful close-ups of Misty, then pivots to watch the people watching her. — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026 But the film most shoots the moon on the performance of Jeremy Strong, whose Zuckerberg is what would happen if The Truman Show’s Christof fell in a vat of acid and emerged as a cross between The Joker and Sheldon Cooper. — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 5 Oct. 2026 Tape shoots out and knocks into something that falls into something else and then hits a harpsichord, and someone gets an idea. — Christine Werthman, Billboard, 5 Oct. 2026 Searchlight just announced the project, which shoots in New York this fall. — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2026 It’s called the Golden Spurs Award — given annually to the Campbell family member who shoots the turkey with the biggest spurs. — Colton Pouncy, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026 The actress-executive producer can also be seen in a wintry look as her character, a working dancer, shoots a commercial. — Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2026

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Eco effort While over 80% of the reefs around the resort were bleached following the dramatic temperature rises of El Nino in 2016, the resort is throwing everything at its coral nursery and the green shoots are showing. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2026 However, Laguarta shared green shoots showing that the company's efforts are working. — Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026 At a time when major film and TV shoots are leaving the state, microdramas are one of the few areas of production that are growing locally. — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026 On location for the night shoots, blizzards, and allergic reactions that went into making Primetime. — Sinna Nasseri, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026 In fact, the show shoots in Toronto, which happens to be where Innanen attended university. — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026 For 2025, the Madrid municipal office disclosed that feature film shoots set a new record of 71, handily exceeding the previous high of 47 set in 2022. — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 28 Sep. 2026 Fast-growing microgreens such as watercress and pea shoots and tendrils can be grown and harvested in a couple of weeks. — The Spruce, 24 Sep. 2026 She’d be paid approximately $9,000 total for a trio of weekend shoots, and get credits that would count toward her journalism major. — Samantha Bergeson, Vanity Fair, 24 Sep. 2026

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Andrew Garfield stars as Altman, with Anora‘s Yura Borisov playing Ilya Sutskever, the chief scientific officer and co-founder of OpenAI who fires Altman.

— Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2026
Dennis Dooley, who was standing on the roadbed below, fires one shot, striking Bottom.

— Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of fires

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In 2015, mine blasts at the border blamed on North Korea pushed the two Koreas to the brink of an armed conflict, after South Korea's then conservative government resumed front-line propaganda broadcasts for the first time in 11 years.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026
The Omen 16 is a capable mid-range machine with a zesty 16-inch WQXGA screen that blasts through top titles with a 240Hz refresh rate.

— K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of blasts

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In Robin’s imagination, the moon grows large and then pops like a ballon, leaving Robin and readers alike in awe of the world’s small moments of magic.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 Oct. 2026
Birdbuddy abandoned the long skinny Nature Cam for a circular camera that pops in magnetically.

— Jim Fisher, PC Magazine, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of pops

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As the industry rushes to try to understand how to capitalize on that momentum, Parsons is already looking ahead.

— Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 26 Sep. 2026
At 6-3, 255 pounds, Howell was one of several top pass rushers in the draft who was dinged for arm length but is already impressing with varied rushes through the first two weeks.

— PJ Green September 24, Kansas City Star, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of rushes

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His mother had tried, in the aftermath of a wildfire that destroyed their neighborhood, to replace the philosophy books and family photographs the 17-year-old boy had lost.

— Casey Parks, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2026
The agent’s story peters out at the end; Simon photographs a quilt made out of T-shirts from his many law-enforcement jobs which his girlfriend commissioned for him from Etsy.

— Emily Witt, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of photographs

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O’Kane shouts when Tom Brokaw announces that one of the men suspected of plotting the attack has been detained.

— Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026
Fighters loyal to the Houthi authorities, shouts slogans during a rally to recruit more fighters, in Sanaa on September 10, 2026.

— Sam Meredith, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of shouts

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Kemery sprinkles the tiny seeds either in late fall or very early spring, when there’s still a chance of frost, since cold spells offer the best germination.

— SJ McShane, Martha Stewart, 11 July 2026
Thomson sprinkles critique throughout his book like seasoning unevenly applied to a gamey piece of meat.

— Michael O’Donnell, The Atlantic, 2 July 2026