Exploding and Shoot

verb

• Cause to burst with a violent release of energy.
  • usage: "We exploded the nuclear bomb"
  • synonyms: explode, detonate, blow up, set off
• Burst outward, usually with noise.
  • usage: "The champagne bottle exploded"
  • synonyms: explode, burst
• Show a violent emotional reaction.
  • usage: "The boss exploded when he heard of the resignation of the secretary"
  • synonyms: explode
• Be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise.
  • usage: "His anger exploded"
  • synonyms: explode, burst forth, break loose
• Destroy by exploding.
  • usage: "The enemy exploded the bridge"
  • synonyms: explode
• Cause to burst as a result of air pressure; of stop consonants like /p/, /t/, and /k/.
  • synonyms: explode
• Drive from the stage by noisy disapproval.
  • synonyms: explode
• Show (a theory or claim) to be baseless, or refute and make obsolete.
  • synonyms: explode
• (v.) ()
  • synonyms: detonate, explode, blow up
• Increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner.
  • usage: "The population of India is exploding"; "The island's rodent population irrupted"
  • synonyms: explode, irrupt

noun

• A new branch.
• The act of shooting at targets.
  • usage: "they hold a shoot every weekend during the summer"

verb

• Hit with a missile from a weapon.
  • synonyms: hit, pip
• Kill by firing a missile.
  • synonyms: pip
• Fire a shot.
  • usage: "the gunman blasted away"
  • synonyms: blast
• Make a film or photograph of something.
  • usage: "take a scene"; "shoot a movie"
  • synonyms: film, take
• Send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly.
  • usage: "shoot a glance"
• Run or move very quickly or hastily.
  • usage: "She dashed into the yard"
  • synonyms: dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash
• Move quickly and violently.
  • usage: "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office"
  • synonyms: tear, shoot down, charge, buck
• Throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective.
  • usage: "shoot craps"; "shoot a golf ball"
• Record on photographic film.
  • usage: "I photographed the scene of the accident"; "She snapped a picture of the President"
  • synonyms: photograph, snap
• Emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully.
  • usage: "The dragon shot fumes and flames out of its mouth"
• Cause a sharp and sudden pain in.
  • usage: "The pain shot up her leg"
• Force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing.
  • usage: "inject hydrogen into the balloon"
  • synonyms: inject
• Variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors.
  • usage: "shoot cloth"
• Throw dice, as in a crap game.
• Spend frivolously and unwisely.
  • usage: "Fritter away one's inheritance"
  • synonyms: fritter, frivol away, dissipate, fritter away, fool, fool away
• Score.
  • usage: "shoot a basket"; "shoot a goal"
• Utter fast and forcefully.
  • usage: "She shot back an answer"
• Measure the altitude of by using a sextant.
  • usage: "shoot a star"
• Produce buds, branches, or germinate.
  • usage: "the potatoes sprouted"
  • synonyms: spud, germinate, pullulate, bourgeon, burgeon forth, sprout
• Give an injection to.
  • usage: "We injected the glucose into the patient's vein"
  • synonyms: inject

• (v.i.) To pass rapidly through, over or under; as, to shoot a rapid or a bridge; to shoot a sand bar.
• (v.i.) To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.
• (v.i.) To cause an engine or weapon to discharge a missile; -- said of a person or an agent; as, they shot at a target; he shoots better than he rides.
• (n.) A young branch or growth.
• (v.i.) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
• (n.) A shoat; a young hog.
• (v.i.) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
• (n.) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
• (n.) The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot; as, the shoot of a shuttle.
• (v.i.) To discharge, causing a missile to be driven forth; -- followed by a word denoting the weapon or instrument, as an object; -- often with off; as, to shoot a gun.
• (v.i.) To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.
• (v.i.) To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.
• (v.i.) To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
• (n.) A rush of water; a rapid.
• (v.i.) To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
• (v.i.) To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend; as, the land shoots into a promontory.
• (v.i.) To let fly or cause to be driven, with force, as an arrow or a bullet; -- followed by a word denoting the missile, as an object.
• (n.) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
• (v.i.) To discharge a missile; -- said of an engine or instrument; as, the gun shoots well.
• (v.i.) To penetrate, as a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation; as, shooting pains.
• (v.i.) To strike with anything shot; to hit with a missile; often, to kill or wound with a firearm; -- followed by a word denoting the person or thing hit, as an object.
• (v.i.) To be shot or propelled forcibly; -- said of a missile; to be emitted or driven; to move or extend swiftly, as if propelled; as, a shooting star.
• (n.) An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artificial, in a stream, where the water rushes rapidly; especially, a channel, having a swift current, connecting the ends of a bend in the stream, so as to shorten the course.
• (v.i.) To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; -- often with out; as, a plant shoots out a bud.
• (v.i.) To grow; to advance; as, to shoot up rapidly.