RE: Is Atheism for Me?
November 18, 2009 at 7:08 pm
(This post was last modified: November 18, 2009 at 7:08 pm by Violet.)
Apple Dictionary Wrote:shoot | sh oōt| |ʃut| |ʃuːt|As far as I can tell... aim, pull trigger, and brace have nothing to do with shooting (or shot, which is the bold).
verb ( past shot | sh ät| |ʃɑt| |ʃɒt|)
1 [ trans. ] kill or wound (a person or animal) with a bullet or arrow : he was shot in the leg during an armed robbery | [ trans. ] troops shot dead 29 people.
• [ intrans. ] fire a bullet from a gun or discharge an arrow from a bow : he shot at me twice | the troops were ordered to shoot to kill | [ trans. ] they shot a volley of arrows into the village.
• cause (a gun) to fire.
• [ trans. ] damage or remove (something) with a bullet or missile : Guy, shoot their hats off.
• [ intrans. ] hunt game with a gun : we go to Scotland to shoot every autumn.
• [ intrans. ] ( shoot over) shoot game over (an estate or other area of countryside).
• shoot game in or on (an estate, cover, etc.).
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
