Synonyms for shooting
shoot·ing

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1. shooting, shotnoun

   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. shootingnoun

   killing someone by gunfire

   "when the shooting stopped there were three dead bodies"

   Synonyms:
   shot

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1. • Homicide

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1. shootingadjective

   Synonyms:
   darting, piercing

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1. List of paraphrases for "shooting":

   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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1. Fox News:

   It's an active investigation in terms of a woman died, she was my friend, we were a very, very well-oiled crew shooting a film together, and then this horrible event happened.

2. Frank Milstead:

   All of these acts are potentially lethal encounters, when you're shooting into a moving vehicle with unwitting occupants, (it could be) lethal.

3. Petro Poroshenko:

   Ukraine has fulfilled every single point of the Minsk agreement. The ceasefire has been implemented immediately on our part, but the Russian fighters have done the exact opposite, every day, there is shooting from the Russian side, often more than 60 times a day. In total, the ceasefire has been broken 1,100 times.

4. Sue Hayman:

   The costs of grouse shooting on our environment and wildlife needs to be to properly weighed up against the benefit of land owners profiting from shooting parties, there are viable alternatives to grouse shooting such as simulated shooting and wildlife tourism.

5. Daniel Webster:

   I worry a little bit about whether the part of the racial effects or differences that are reported here have something to do with a culture of sports shooting more for whites than for blacks or other non-whites.