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unshot

unshot adjective: not having been shot.

Adjective

unshot (not comparable)

  1. Not having been shot.
    • an unshot target
  2. Not discharged or fired off.
    • weapons left unshot

Verb

unshot (third-person singular simple present unshots, present participle unshotting, simple past and past participle unshotted)

  1. (transitive) To remove the shot from (a gun); to unload.

Forms of unshot

third-person singular presentunshots
present participleunshotting
past participleunshotted
pastunshotted

Origin of unshot

From un- + shot.

Questions about unshot

What does unshot mean?
Unshot means not having been shot.
What part of speech is unshot?
Unshot can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near unshot in the dictionary

  1. unshortened
  2. unshortening
  3. unshortens
  4. unshorting
  5. unshorts
  6. unshot
  7. unshots
  8. unshotted
  9. unshotting
  10. unshoulder
  11. unshouldered

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