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shot out en · ADJ
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(not-comparable) Of an area, having had all game eradicated from hunting.
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(not-comparable) Of a species or population, completely extirpated from an area due to overshooting by hunters.
[S]tates may be under pressure to stock cock birds because locally they have been "shot out."
1956, Durward Leon Allen, Pheasants in North America, Stackpole Company, page 456:
shot out en · VERB
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(form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of shoot out