Shoots is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SHOOTS in dictionary:

VERB:
• SHOOT, to hit, injure or kill with a missile
• kill or wound (a person or animal) with a bullet or arrow
• fire a bullet from a gun or discharge an arrow from a bow
• use a firearm with a specified degree of skill
• cause (a gun) to fire
• damage or remove (something) with a bullet or missile
• hunt game with a gun
• shoot game over (an estate or other area of countryside)
• shoot game in or on (an estate, cover, etc.)
• move or cause to move suddenly and rapidly in a particular direction
• direct (a glance, question, or remark) at someone
• used to invite a comment or question
• (of a pain) move with a sharp stabbing sensation
• extend sharply in a particular direction
• move (a bolt) to fasten or unfasten a door
• (of a boat) sweep swiftly down or under (rapids, a waterfall, or a bridge)
• (of a motor vehicle) pass (a traffic light at red)
• (of a ball) dart along the ground after pitching
• (in football, hockey, basketball, etc.) kick, hit, or throw the ball or puck in an attempt to score a goal
• make (a specified score) for a round of golf
• play a game of (pool or dice)
• film or photograph (a scene, film, etc.)
• (of a plant or seed) send out buds or shoots; germinate
• (of a bud or shoot) appear; sprout
• inject oneself or another person with (a narcotic drug)
• plane (the edge of a board) accurately
NOUN:
• a young branch or sucker springing from the main stock of a tree or other plant
• an occasion when a group of people hunt and shoot game for sport
• an area of land used for shooting game
• a shooting match
• an occasion when a professional photographer takes photographs or when a film or video is being made
• a rapid in a stream
INTERJECTION:
• used as a euphemism for ‘shit’
• used as a euphemism for ‘shit’
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to hit, wound, or kill with a missile discharged from a weapon

Words related to SHOOTS

shoot8 shooting12 shot7

Words that contain SHOOTS

reshoots11 unshoots11 upshoots13 offshoots18 outshoots12 crapshoots17 overshoots16 sideshoots14 photoshoots19 undershoots15 bumbershoots21 troubleshoots18

How to use SHOOTS in a sentence

• If it expands, its centre and its cradle dies, and on the outer borders only do we find green shoots.
• The flowers, which are borne in crowded clusters at the points of the shoots, are bell-shaped, and of a pleasing reddish-lilac colour.
• It deserves to be extensively cultivated, if only for the profusion of brightly-tinted flowers, which completely cover the shoots before the leaves have appeared.
• Though not perfectly hardy, yet this handsome climbing plant, if cut down to the ground, usually shoots up freely again in the spring.
• It is of somewhat erect growth, with stout branches and plenty of shoots.
• This is a small-growing tree, and readily distinguished by the clammy bark of the younger shoots.
• In little pouches round his belt he carried the pointed bits of metal that the instrument shoots out quicker than arrows.
• The rooted shoots may be divided in spring or almost at any other period, or it may be propagated by taking cuttings in summer.
• They may, if desired, be forced as soon as the shoots appear.
• Ah, it shoots out into the open now, and I can see it.
• And from day to day the little shoots grew and flourished till they were all well above the ground.
• Any crowding will have to be paid for, because crowded shoots are not fruitful.
• Those trees which grow in a high rocky soil have red shoots, and the bark is superior to that which is produced in a moist clay, where the shoots are green.
• It is not difficult, by judicious questioning, to set his feet upon the slippery descent that shoots a man into idealism.
• But having had proof, as she believes, that Nita means business, Flora waits in the closet until Nita comes in and sits down at her dressing-table, then steps out and shoots her.
• To this often such seed does not attain, through being ill cultivated, or through its tender growing shoots being perverted.
• Here they grew quickly, forming by the middle of August tufts of shoots and leaves one foot across.
• Three times during the next month all side shoots thrown out are removed.
• The blossoms are small, of a bluish brown, and hang like loose bunches of grapes at the points of the shoots, or even on the stem itself, as it has seldom branches.
• This root was capable of producing many cursed shoots.
• So! But by and by comes up green shoots, and blossoms.
• Telegraph lines stuck forth everywhere into the great spaces of the country, like the new shoots of a tree.

Similar words containing SHOOT without suffix s

shoot8 reshoot10 shooter10 shootie10 unshoot10 upshoot12 offshoot17 outshoot11 reshoots11 shooters11 shooties11 shooting12 shootist11 shootout11 unshoots11 upshoots13 crapshoot16 offshoots18 outshoots12 overshoot15 shootable14 shootdown16 shootings13 shootists12 shootouts12 sideshoot13 unshooted13 crapshoots17 overshoots16 peashooter15 photoshoot18 reshooting14 shootdowns17 sideshoots14 undershoot14 unshooting14 upshooting16 bumbershoot20 crapshooter18 outshooting15 peashooters16 photoshoots19 shootaround15 snapshooter16 trapshooter16 undershoots15 bumbershoots21 crapshooters19 overshooting19 sharpshooter20 shootarounds16 snapshooters17 snapshooting18 trapshooters17 trapshooting18 troubleshoot17 sharpshooters21 sharpshooting22 snapshootings19 trapshootings19 troubleshoots18 undershooting18 sharpshootings23 troubleshooter19 troubleshooters20 troubleshooting21

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