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shooting.

Moving or growing quickly

8 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/ˈʃuːtɪŋ/

  1. Moving or growing quickly

    Shooting beams of light played over the sea.

  2. Of a pain, sudden and darting

    I often feel a shooting pain in my arm.
Where this word comes from

From Middle English shoting, schoting, from Old English scotung (“shooting”), from Proto-Germanic *skutungō, equivalent to shoot + -ing. Cognate with Dutch schieting, German Erschießung (“shooting”), Swedish skjutning (“shooting”).

noun/ˈʃuːtɪŋ/

  1. an instance of shooting with a gun or other weapon

    countable
    Police are hunting the people who carried out the shootings last week.

  2. the sport or activity of firing a gun or other weapon

    uncountable
    I take part in shooting at the local archery club.

  3. a district in which people have the right to kill game with firearms

    countable · uncountable

  4. the act of one who, or that which, shoots

    countable · uncountable
    the shooting of rays of light

  5. a sensation of darting pain

    countable · uncountable
    a shooting in one's head

  6. filming

    countable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

From Middle English shoting, schoting, from Old English scotung (“shooting”), from Proto-Germanic *skutungō, equivalent to shoot + -ing. Cognate with Dutch schieting, German Erschießung (“shooting”), Swedish skjutning (“shooting”).

verb/ˈʃuːtɪŋ/

  1. present participle and gerund of shoot; forcefully projecting

    form-of · gerund · participle · present
Where this word comes from

From Middle English shoting, schoting, from Old English scotung (“shooting”), from Proto-Germanic *skutungō, equivalent to shoot + -ing. Cognate with Dutch schieting, German Erschießung (“shooting”), Swedish skjutning (“shooting”).

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.