Discharge
Discharge verb - To cause (a projectile) to be driven forward with force.
Usage example: Robert Goddard was the first to discharge a rocket containing an instrument package
Shoot is a synonym for discharge in fire topic. In some cases you can use "Shoot" instead a verb "Discharge", when it comes to topics like propel, catapult, detonate weapon.
How words are described
| full | full discharge | full shoot |
| green | green discharge | green shoot |
| single | single discharge | single shoot |
| big | big discharge | big shoot |
| Other adjectives: huge, literal, upcoming. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Afterwards, Martha tries to get Ras to accept Jesus, but he isn't interested.Events take a tragic turn when Ras drops his gun, causing it to discharge and shoot Martha in the chest.
Source: Film / The Blood of Jesus - The Paramils can't shoot Kitson - he's standing too close to Laura and their energy weapons discharge would wreck the supercomputer as well as him.
Source: Literature / Futuretrack Five -
And no need to coax the turret into an accidental discharge; the turrets consider the Big Bad to be a hostile and will happily shoot him of their own accord.
Source: Videogame / Portal 2
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