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noun the act of firing a projectile
noun killing someone by gunfire
verb hit with a missile from a weapon
originFrom Middle English shoting, schoting, from Old English scotung (“shooting”), from Proto-Germanic *skutungō, equivalent to shoot + -ing. Cognate with Dutch schieting, German Erschießung (“shooting”), Swedish skjutning (“shooting”).
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