Gunshot

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The shooting of a gun.
  • n. The range of a gun: within gunshot.
  • n. Shot fired from a gun.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The act of discharging a firearm.
  • n. The sound made by a discharging firearm.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Act of firing a gun; a shot.
  • n. The distance to which shot can be thrown from a gun, so as to be effective; the reach or range of a gun.
  • adj. Made by the shot of a gun: as. a gunshot wound.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Collectively, projectiles for cannon; solid shot.
  • n. The reach or range of a gun; the distance to which shot can be thrown from a cannon so as to be effective; military, the length of the pointblank range of a cannon-shot.
  • n. In heraldry, a roundel sable.
  • n. The firing of a cannon.
  • Made by the shot of a gun: as, a gunshot wound.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the act of shooting a gun
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    shot    shooting   
    Hyponym
    enfilade    snipe    enfilade fire   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    shot   
    Same Context
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