Gunshot definition

gŭnshŏt
gunshots
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The shooting of a gun.
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The range of a gun.

Within gunshot.

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Shot fired from a gun.
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A shot fired from a gun.
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The range of a gun.
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Caused by a shot from a gun.

A gunshot wound.

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The act of discharging a firearm.
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The sound made by a discharging firearm.
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The distance to which shot can be thrown from a gun; the reach or range of a gun.
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
gunshot
Plural:
gunshots

Gunshot Sentence Examples

  • Almost immediately, the room erupted with a gunshot and both my assailant and I dropped to the floor.

  • He had just started toward his Jeep when there was a sound like a gunshot from above them.

  • Soon the place is swarmed with siren screaming representatives of the law enforcement community, and I hear a gunshot!

  • He wiped his prints and replaced it, wondering if Joseph or Ginger Dawkins was responsible for the gunshot at the mine.

  • She had visited him in Ouray, nearly a year and a half before, while he was recuperating from a gunshot wound.

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