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unshoot

unshoot verb: to shoot back (the bolt of a door); to allow opening.

Verb

unshoot (third-person singular simple present unshoots, present participle unshooting, simple past and past participle unshot)

  1. (transitive) To shoot back (the bolt of a door); to allow opening.
  2. (transitive) To undo the effects of shooting (someone).
    • Anyway, we can't unshoot him, can we? Can't change a thing.2007, Jack Coughlin, Donald A[lan] Davis, Kill Zone: A Sniper Novel, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 4
    • You can't ungrow a baby, or unshoot a bullet, or unfight a war. How could I have ever thought you could?2015, Catherine Banner, The Heart at War (The Last Descendants Trilogy; Book III), [Toronto, Ont.]: Doubleday Canada, →ISBN, page 385

Forms of unshoot

third-person singular presentunshoots
present participleunshooting
past participleunshot
pastunshot

Origin of unshoot

From un- + shoot.

Questions about unshoot

What does unshoot mean?
Unshoot means to shoot back (the bolt of a door); to allow opening.
What part of speech is unshoot?
Unshoot is a verb.
What is the past tense of unshoot?
The past tense of unshoot is unshot.

Words near unshoot in the dictionary

  1. unshoed
  2. unshoeing
  3. unshoes
  4. unshone
  5. unshook
  6. unshoot
  7. unshootable
  8. unshooting
  9. unshoots
  10. unshopped
  11. unshored

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