shoot

1. 1.

   a new branch

   Broadersprout

   Narrowersuckertiller
2. 2.

   the act of shooting at targets

   “they hold a shoot every weekend during the summer”

   Broadershooting

   Narrowerskeet

Other forms of shoot

plural

shoots·

past tense or participle

shot

present participle

shooting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about shoot

What does shoot mean?

shoot means "hit with a missile from a weapon". That is the primary sense; the word has 22 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shoot?

shoot has 1 syllable: shoot. In IPA it is /ˈʃut/.

What is another word for shoot?

Close synonyms include hit, pip, pip, blast, film. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shoot a common word?

shoot is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with shoot?

7 words rhyme with shoot. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.