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Antonyms for shooting up
Grammar : Adj, verb |
Spell : shoot |
Phonetic Transcription : ʃut |
- abandon
- abbreviate
- abridge
- block
- cease
- close
- complete
- compress
- conceal
- concentrate
- conclude
- condemn
- condense
- contract
- curtail
- decelerate
- decline
- decrease
- deflate
- demolish
- demote
- denounce
- depart
- deprecate
- depress
- descend
- destroy
- deteriorate
- die
- diminish
- disappear
- discourage
- disdain
- disgrace
- disperse
- dissuade
- distress
- divide
- drop
- dying
- end
- exclude
- fade
- fail
- fall
- finish
- go
- halt
- hide
- humiliate
- hurt
- ignore
- land
- languish
- leave
- lessen
- lose
- lower
- narrow
- neglect
- play down
- push
- push down
- raze
- recede
- reduce
- repel
- repress
- repulse
- retreat
- retrogress
- scatter
- separate
- sew
- shame
- shorten
- shrink
- shrinking
- shrivel
- slow
- slump
- soothe
- spurn
- stop
- stunt
- suppress
- trouble
- undermine
- upset
- walk
- weaken
- wither
- withering
Definition of shooting up
Origin :- Old English sceotan "to hurl missiles, cast; strike, hit, push; run, rush; send forth swiftly; wound with missiles" (class II strong verb; past tense sceat, past participle scoten), from Proto-Germanic *skeutanan (cf. Old Saxon skiotan, Old Norse skjota "to shoot with (a weapon); shoot, launch, push, shove quickly," Old Frisian skiata, Middle Dutch skieten, Dutch schieten, Old High German skiozan, German schießen), from PIE root *skeud- "to shoot, to chase, to throw, to project" (cf. Sanskrit skundate "hastens, makes haste," Old Church Slavonic iskydati "to throw out," Lithuanian skudrus "quick, nimble").
- In reference to pool playing, from 1926. Meaning "to strive (for)" is from 1967, American English. Sense of "descend (a river) quickly" is from 1610s. Meaning "to inject by means of a hypodermic needle" is attested from 1914. Meaning "photograph" (especially a movie) is from 1890. As an interjection, an arbitrary euphemistic alteration of shit, it is recorded from 1934. Shoot the breeze "chat" first recorded 1941. Shoot-'em-up (adj.) in reference to violent entertainment (Western movies, etc.) is from 1942. Shoot to kill first attested 1867. Shoot the cat "to vomit" is from 1785. To shoot the moon originally meant "depart by night with ones goods to escape back rent" (1829).
- O, 'tis cash makes such crowds to the gin shops roam,And 'tis cash often causes a rumpus at home ;'Tis when short of cash people oft shoot the moon ;And 'tis cash always keeps our pipes in tune.Cash! cash! &c.["The Melodist and Mirthful Olio, An Elegant Collection of the Most Popular Songs," vol. IV, London, 1829]
- As in budding : adj developing, flowering
- As in mature : verb become adult, fully grown
- As in mushroom : verb sprout; grow quickly
- As in raise : verb increase, augment
- As in skyrocket : verb soar
- As in soar : verb climb, fly
- As in spring : verb originate, emerge
- As in sprout : verb develop
- As in stretch : verb extend, elongate
- As in thrive : verb do well
- As in zoom : verb move very quickly
- As in maturate : verb mature
- As in upraise : verb elevate
- As in uprear : verb elevate
- As in elevate : verb lift up
- You can't hang a man, Mr. Stanley, for shooting up a frying-pan.
- Extract from : « Good Indian » by B. M. Bower
- You were turned out of church once, weren't you, for shooting up a meeting?
- Extract from : « In Happy Valley » by John Fox
- It was at the close of a snowy day, and the northern lights were shooting up the sky.
- Extract from : « Ole Bull » by Sara C. Bull
- He was shooting up like a weed, and his face was paler than it should be.
- Extract from : « Gold-Seeking on the Dalton Trail » by Arthur R. Thompson
- Oh, boy, just a little while, and Ill be shooting up to hit the blue!
- Extract from : « Don Hale with the Flying Squadron » by W. Crispin Sheppard
- The Indians are coming in today, so I guess there will be a shooting up the town.
- Extract from : « The Homesteader » by Oscar Micheaux
- Now there was some shooting up forward and somebody was hit.
- Extract from : « Cappy Ricks Retires » by Peter B. Kyne
- "It's awful, the way you're shooting up," he said, in a vexed tone.
- Extract from : « The Old Willow Tree and Other Stories » by Carl Ewald
- But she was shooting up, slender and straight, the image of her dead mother.
- Extract from : « The Revellers » by Louis Tracy
- Who was it bribed the jury that tried you for the shooting up of Derbyville, Pedlar?
- Extract from : « Gunman's Reckoning » by Max Brand
Synonyms for shooting up
- advance
- age
- aggravate
- amplify
- appear
- arise
- arrive
- ascend
- aspire
- assemble
- attain majority
- augment
- batten
- be derived
- be descended
- bear fruit
- become experienced
- become wise
- begin
- beginning
- birth
- bloom
- blossom
- blossoming
- blow up
- boom
- boost
- branch out
- bridge
- bud
- build up
- burgeon
- burgeoning
- burst
- burst forth
- bursting forth
- buzz
- catapult
- collect
- come
- come into being
- come into existence
- come of age
- come out
- commence
- congregate
- congress
- cover
- crane
- culminate
- dart
- dash
- derive
- descend
- detonate
- develop
- dignify
- distend
- dive
- drag out
- draw
- draw out
- emanate
- embryonic
- enhance
- enlarge
- erect
- escalate
- evolve
- exaggerate
- exalt
- expand
- explode
- fetch up
- fill
- fill out
- flash
- fledgling
- flourish
- flow
- flower
- fly
- forgather
- form
- fresh
- gather
- germinal
- germinate
- germinating
- get
- get ahead
- get fat
- get on
- get places
- get there
- glide
- go
- go off
- go through the ceiling
- go through the roof
- goose
- goose up
- grow
- grow rapidly
- grow rich
- grow up
- growing
- hatch
- head
- heave
- heighten
- hike
- hike up
- hoist
- honor
- hum
- hurtle
- incipient
- increase
- inflate
- intensify
- issue
- jack up
- jump
- jump up
- lengthen
- levitate
- levy
- lie out
- lift
- look up
- loom
- luxuriate
- magnify
- make
- make a go
- make taut
- make tense
- mass
- maturate
- maturing
- mellow
- mobilize
- mount
- mushroom
- muster
- nascent
- obtain
- open
- opening
- outstrip
- overlap
- pad
- perfect
- perk up
- pick up
- poise
- potential
- prime
- proceed
- progress
- proliferate
- prolong
- prolongate
- promising
- promote
- prosper
- protract
- pubescent
- pull
- pull out
- pullulating
- pump
- push
- put up
- pyramid
- rack
- radiate
- raise
- rally
- ramp
- range
- reach
- reach adulthood
- reach majority
- rear
- recline
- recruit
- reinforce
- rendezvous
- repose
- rip
- ripen
- rise
- rocket
- round
- run
- run up
- rush
- sail
- score
- season
- send through the roof
- settle down
- shine
- shoot
- shoot up
- shooting up
- skyrocket
- snowball
- span
- speed
- spin out
- spread
- spread out
- spring
- spring up
- sprouting
- start
- stem
- stilt
- strain
- streak
- strengthen
- string out
- succeed
- surge
- swell
- take off
- take root
- take up
- tauten
- tear
- tighten
- tilt
- top
- tower
- turn out well
- unfold
- unroll
- up
- uphold
- uplift
- upraise
- uprear
- upspring
- vault up
- vegetate
- vegetating
- wax
- whirl
- whiz
- widen
- wing
- young
- zip
- zoom
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