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shot out en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of an area, having had all game eradicated from hunting.
  2. (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

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of shoot out
    form of shoot out