shooting

Describing a sharp pain that suddenly seems to travel through part of your body.

• I felt a shooting pain in my leg.
• Shooting pains kept him awake last night.
• Does the shooting pain reach your shoulder?

Similar words: darting, stabbing

Common phrases: shooting pain, sharp shooting pain

Moving suddenly and quickly, or growing very fast.

• We saw a shooting star.
• Shooting beams of light swept across the water.
• The painting shows shooting rays spreading from the sun.

Similar words: darting, racing

Common phrases: shooting star, shooting beams, shooting rays

An event in which someone fires a gun at another person.

• Two people were injured in the shooting.
• Police arrested a suspect after yesterday’s shooting.
• The town has experienced several shootings this year.

How to use it: shooting of someone (Police are investigating the shooting of a shopkeeper.)

Similar words: gun attack

Common phrases: fatal shooting, school shooting, shooting incident

The act of firing bullets or sending something out quickly, such as rays of light.

• Target shooting requires a steady hand.
• We heard shooting from the practice range.
• The experiment involved the shooting of light through a tiny hole.

How to use it: shooting of something (The device allows the shooting of a narrow beam of light.)

Similar words: firing

Common phrases: target shooting, shooting of rays, shooting practice

A sudden sharp feeling of pain that seems to travel through your body.

• He felt a shooting in his head.
• A painful shooting ran down her arm.
• The strange shooting in his back soon passed.

How to use it: a shooting in something (She felt a shooting in her shoulder.)

Similar words: twinge, stab

Common phrases: shooting in something, painful shooting