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…

Amplified with dead or to death added.

transitive. To destroy or obliterate in an explosion, or with a firearm; to subject to an explosion, to blow up; (in extended use) to ruin…

transitive. To shoot (an animal) down. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. With adverbs and adverbial phrases. to shoot (a person) down: to kill by a shot (usually with suggestion of merciless cruelty or…

To bring down (a bird) with the gun. Also, to arrest the rush of (a charging enemy or wild beast) with rifle-fire. (Said also of the bullet and of…

To produce by blowing or shooting.

slang. To shoot (someone or something) with a gun, usually to kill. Also of a bullet: to make a hole in (something).

transitive. To kill with a Maxim gun.

transitive. To fire (a bullet, shell, or other projectile), to discharge (a gun); frequently with off. Also: to shoot (a person or animal). Also figur…

Shooting. To shatter (a game bird) in shooting; more explicitly to blow to pieces. So (U.S. slang) to blow apart.

To shoot (a person) with a firearm. U.S. slang.

transitive. North American slang. To kill, esp. by shooting.

slang or colloquial. intransitive and transitive with it. To commit violent or daring crimes, esp. murder or armed robbery, in a hot-headed…

To kill, esp. with a gun; to deal a sudden blow to.

transitive to shoot at or kill with a Sten gun.

transitive. U.S. colloquial. To kill (a person) or destroy (a thing) with gunfire; to riddle with ammunition; to shoot up.

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