GUNSHOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gunshot mean? 

• GUNSHOT (noun)
  The noun GUNSHOT has 1 sense:

1. the act of shooting a gun

  Familiarity information: GUNSHOT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GUNSHOT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of shooting a gun

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

gunfire; gunshot

Context example:

they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire

Hypernyms ("gunshot" is a kind of...):

shooting; shot (the act of firing a projectile)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gunshot"):

enfilade; enfilade fire (gunfire directed along the length rather than the breadth of a formation)

snipe (a gunshot from a concealed location)

 Context examples 

To have my beautiful Culloden laid on a sandbank just out of gunshot.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Only once we heard a gunshot a great way off and supposed them to be hunting.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Causes include blunt injuries (e.g., motor vehicle accidents and sports-related injuries) and penetrating traumas (e.g., gunshot and knife injuries).

(Injury to Carotid Artery, NCI Thesaurus)