All shooting synonyms
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S s noun shooting
- homicide β the killing of one human being by another.
- decapitation β to cut off the head of; behead: Many people were decapitated during the French Revolution.
- lethal injection β dose of deadly chemical into a vein
- fowling β the practice or sport of shooting or snaring birds.
- electrocution β The accidental death or suicide by electric shock.
- gunfire β the firing of a gun or guns.
- hangings β Plural form of hanging.
- hunting β an act or practice of hunting game or other wild animals.
- execution β The carrying out or putting into effect of a plan, order, or course of action.
- firing β a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
- murder β Law. the killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law. In the U.S., special statutory definitions include murder committed with malice aforethought, characterized by deliberation or premeditation or occurring during the commission of another serious crime, as robbery or arson (first-degree murder) and murder by intent but without deliberation or premeditation (second-degree murder)
- halieutic β Of or pertaining to fishing.
- hawking β to make an effort to raise phlegm from the throat; clear the throat noisily.
- assassination β to kill suddenly or secretively, especially a politically prominent person; murder premeditatedly and treacherously.
- fishery β a place where fish are bred; fish hatchery.
- gunfight β a battle between two or more people or groups armed with guns, especially a confrontation between two gunfighters using revolvers in the frontier days of the American West.
- halieutics β (literature) A treatise upon fish or the art of fishing.
- necktie party β a lynching or other execution by hanging.
- offing β the state or fact of being off.
- cast β The cast of a play or film is all the people who act in it.
- gassing β an affecting, overcoming, or poisoning with gas or fumes.
- enfilade β A volley of gunfire directed along a line from end to end.
- gunshot β the shooting of a gun: We heard three gunshots.
- falconry β the sport of hunting with falcons, hawks, eagles, etc.; hawking.
- impalement β to fasten, stick, or fix upon a sharpened stake or the like.
- cinematography β Cinematography is the technique of making films for the cinema.
- cannonading β a continued discharge of cannon, especially during an attack.
- discharging β to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
adj shooting
- acute β An acute accent is a symbol that is placed over vowels in some languages in order to indicate how that vowel is pronounced or over one letter in a word to indicate where it is stressed. You refer to a letter with this accent as, for example, e acute. For example, there is an acute accent over the letter 'e' in the French word 'cafΓ©'.
- acuate β to sharpen
- horned β made of horn.
- acuminous β keen insight; shrewdness: remarkable acumen in business matters.
- apical β of, at, or being the apex
- lancinating β to stab or pierce.
- knife-edged β having a thin, sharp edge.
adjective shooting
- excruciating β Intensely painful.
- needlelike β a small, slender, rodlike instrument, usually of polished steel, with a sharp point at one end and an eye or hole for thread at the other, for passing thread through cloth to make stitches in sewing.
- knifelike β Resembling a knife or its effects.