Hit
Shoot
Shoot verb - Fire a shot.
Hit is a synonym for shoot in gun down topic. You can use "Hit" instead a verb "Shoot", if it concerns topics such as discharge a projectile, open fire on.
How words are described
| old | old hit | old shoot |
| good | good hit | good shoot |
| normal | normal hit | normal shoot |
| single | single hit | single shoot |
| Other adjectives: small, actual, big, great, enormous, huge, bad, decent, famous, new, early, final, worst, last, commercial. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Blue, despite his usual willingness to shoot or hit anything Blue (or Grif).
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They stumble around killing those orcs closest to them and at one point even stop to look at the arrived reinforcements, and none of the countless orcs around them bothers to shoot or hit them.
Source: Mook Chivalry - The latter serve to show why you don't just shoot the Sailor Senshi: the machine guns shoot and hit Sailor Neptune until they ran out of ammo, and, while battered, she isn't even bleeding.
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