shooting

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   An event in which someone is hit or killed with a gun.

   Police are investigating the shooting that happened last week.

2. 2
   noun

   The sport or activity of firing a gun.

   He enjoys shooting and fishing on the weekends.

3. 3
   adj

   Of a pain, sudden and sharp, moving quickly through the body.

   I often feel a shooting pain in my arm.

Common collocations

• drive-by shooting Adjective + noun
• fatal shooting Adjective + noun
• mass shooting Adjective + noun
• investigate a shooting Verb + noun
• report a shooting Verb + noun
• survive a shooting Verb + noun
• witness a shooting Verb + noun

From Middle English shoting, schoting, from Old English scotung (“shooting”), from Proto-Germanic *skutungō, equivalent to shoot + -ing. Cognate with Dutch schieting, German Erschießung (“shooting”), Swedish skjutning (“shooting”).

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