transitive. To wound or kill with a missile from a bow or firearm (in early use, occasionally with a spear or javelin). Const. with. †Also, to assail…

To hit or wound with a shot in (or †into) or through a part of the body.

To decorate (a person) with the projecting feather of an arrow; hence to pierce, wound. Also, To bury (an arrow) up to the feather. Obsolete.

transitive. With adverbs and adverbial phrases. to shoot (a person, thing) through: to pierce with a shot. to shoot‥through and through: to riddle…

transitive and intransitive. To shoot with a dag or hand-gun.

transitive. To shoot (a person, etc.) with a pistol. Also (occasionally) intransitive.

transitive. To pierce with a shot or shots; to pepper with gunfire, esp. from an automatic weapon. rare before 20th cent. (U.S. slang in later use).

transitive. With adverbs and adverbial phrases. to shoot (a person, thing) through: to pierce with a shot. to shoot‥through and through: to riddle…

transitive. To pierce, nick, or hit with a bullet; (in later use also) to shoot with a light gun. Also intransitive.

transitive. To pick off with a shot; †to shoot down (obsolete).

transitive. slang. To strike or shoot (a person). Obsolete.

To shoot (a bird) in the wing, so as to disable it from flying without killing it; transferred to wound (a person) with a shot in the arm or…

transitive. To pierce or bore a hole, passage, etc. in (anything); to perforate with or as with a drill or similar tool. Also spec. to shoot with a…

transitive. To shoot with a rifle. Also intransitive with at.

transitive. To wound in the leg with a projectile, esp. in order to disable or injure without killing. Cf. wing, v. 8.

To fire a bullet into.

To wound or hit with shot.

To shoot with a blunderbuss.

transitive. Frequently in passive with with. To fill with holes, like those in a riddle; to make holes throughout, esp. by means of bullets or…

transitive. Originally Military. To hit or wound with a shot from a gun.

To kill or injure (a person) by shooting. Army slang.