Synonyms for shooting

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1. shooting, shot(noun)

   the act of firing a projectile

   "his shooting was slow but accurate"

   Synonyms:
   stab, injection, scene, guess, dig, stroke, barb, pellet, gibe, guesswork, slam, crack, shooter, dead reckoning, guessing, blastoff, snap, snapshot, shaft, shot, jibe

2. shooting(noun)

   killing someone by gunfire

   "when the shooting stopped there were three dead bodies"

   Synonyms:
   shot

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1. shooting(a)

   Synonyms:
   darting, piercing

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1. List of paraphrases:

   firing, gunfire, fire, tir, shootout, shoot-out, filming, gunfight, ceasefire, cease-fire, firefight, shoot, shootings, shot, recording, gunshot, drive-by, murder, tyre

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How to use shooting in a sentence?

1. Christopher Morley:

   Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

2. Gary Sigrist:

   If you're in a high school cafeteria and someone starts shooting, you don't have the ability to hide or lock out at that point, so you teach people, here's what you can do in an event. That includes, if you choose, going after the attacker.

3. Shantal Persaud:

   After the shooting started, some 200-250 civilians arrived at ...the UNMISS Wau base.

4. Miguel Zurita:

   What we lived through yesterday was something brutal, something that has no name, they arrived armed and they arrived shooting.

5. Mohammad Abu-Salha:

   She was frantic over the phone, and she was told by one of his colleagues that Deah was involved in that shooting and that there were three people killed.

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