Synonyms for shooting
shoot·ing

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1. shooting, shotnoun

   the act of firing a projectile

   "his shooting was slow but accurate"

   Synonyms:
   stab, injection, scene, guess, dig, stroke, barb, pellet, gibe, guesswork, slam, crack, shooter, dead reckoning, guessing, blastoff, snap, snapshot, shaft, shot, jibe

2. shootingnoun

   killing someone by gunfire

   "when the shooting stopped there were three dead bodies"

   Synonyms:
   shot

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1. • Homicide

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1. shootingadjective

   Synonyms:
   darting, piercing

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1. List of paraphrases for "shooting":

   firing, gunfire, fire, tir, shootout, shoot-out, filming, gunfight, ceasefire, cease-fire, firefight, shoot, shootings, shot, recording, gunshot, drive-by, murder, tyre

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1. Jaccbot Hinds:

   They did n’t say ‘ freeze, hands up, drop your gun ’, none of that, they did n’t say nothing. All they did was start shooting.

2. Wasserman Schultz ' spokesman:

   Those services included consulting on a variety of office needs, such as on our website and printers, trouble-shooting, and other issues.

3. Brian Austin:

   I gave her a couple weeks, I figured shes been out of the country, shes jet-lagged, shes been shooting nights, I have to give her some time to recoup a little bit and get back into life, and so I did.

4. Michael Palladino:

   Steven was an exceptional human being who should not be defined by the shooting that paralyzed him, but by what he accomplished in life after it happened.

5. Andy Patel:

   I can hear the gunshots. Its like firecrackers going off. They were shooting like crazy about an hour ago. Then it stopped for like 20 or 30 minutes. The cops were clearing everyone off the streets.