[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

shoot \shoot\, v. i.
   1. to cause an engine or weapon to discharge a missile; --
      said of a person or an agent; as, they shot at a target;
      he shoots better than he rides.
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            the archers have . . . shot at him.   --gen. xlix.
                                                  23.
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   2. to discharge a missile; -- said of an engine or
      instrument; as, the gun shoots well.
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   3. to be shot or propelled forcibly; -- said of a missile; to
      be emitted or driven; to move or extend swiftly, as if
      propelled; as, a shooting star.
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            there shot a streaming lamp along the sky. --dryden.
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   4. to penetrate, as a missile; to dart with a piercing
      sensation; as, shooting pains.
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            thy words shoot through my heart.     --addison.
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   5. to feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.
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            these preachers make
            his head to shoot and ache.           --herbert.
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   6. to germinate; to bud; to sprout.
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            onions, as they hang, will shoot forth. --bacon.
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            but the wild olive shoots, and shades the ungrateful
            plain.                                --dryden.
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   7. to grow; to advance; as, to shoot up rapidly.
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            well shot in years he seemed.         --spenser.
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            delightful task to rear the tender thought,
            to teach the young idea how to shoot. --thomson.
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   8. to change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.
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            if the menstruum be overcharged, metals will shoot
            into crystals.                        --bacon.
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   9. to protrude; to jut; to project; to extend; as, the land
      shoots into a promontory.
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            there shot up against the dark sky, tall, gaunt,
            straggling houses.                    --dickens.
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   10. naut. to move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing
       vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
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   to shoot ahead, to pass or move quickly forward; to
      outstrip others.
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see also:
to shoot ahead 

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