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Shoot

/ʃuːt/
To discharge a bullet or projectile from a weapon, or to take a series of pictures or film footage.

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Examples:

Her eyes shot to Jennifer's waistline.

The scout was shooting from the flat rock.

Pain shoots up my body.

Etymology:

etymology
From Old English sceotan, meaning to move swiftly, dart, hurl, with roots in Proto-Germanic *skeutaną. Related to German schießen and Dutch schieten.

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