shootingnoun
uk/ˈʃuː.tɪŋ/us/ˈʃuː.t̬ɪŋ/B2 [ U ] the act of shooting bullets from guns or other weapons:
We heard some shooting in the night.
B2 [ C ] an occasion when someone is injured or killed by a bullet shot from a gun:
There have been a number of shootings in the capital this week.
[ U ] the sport of shooting animals or birds:
pheasant/grouse shooting
He goes shooting most weekends.
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- The shooting of the policeman has received universal condemnation.
- They dived for cover when they heard the shooting start.
- A youth was seriously injured in a shooting incident on Saturday night.
- He is believed to have been shot by a rival gang in revenge for the shootings last week.
- This week saw the fatal shooting of an unarmed 15-year-old.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Detonation & bombardment
- air raid
- airstrike
- blanket bombing
- blitz
- blitz
- detonator
- direct hit
- dive-bomb
- firebomb
- first strike
- go off
- mine
- saturation bombing
- shell
- shoot
- shoot sth down
- strafe
- strike
- strike home idiom
- torpedo
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Killing
Murder & attempted murder
Target sports
shootingadjective
uk/ˈʃuː.tɪŋ/us/ˈʃuː.t̬ɪŋ/Indian English(of prices) rising very quickly to a high level
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Price increases
- added value
- bounce
- dead cat bounce
- hyperinflation
- inflation
- inflationary
- jack
- jump
- markup
- put sth up
- rack sth up
- rebound
- rise
- rocket
- run
- run sth up
- soar
- spiral
- surcharge
- zoom
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