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unshoot en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + shoot.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To shoot back (the bolt of a door); to allow opening.
2. (transitive) To undo the effects of shooting (someone).
   • Anyway, we can't unshoot him, can we? Can't change a thing. 2007, Jack Coughlin, Donald A[lan] Davis, Kill Zone: A Sniper Novel, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 4:
   • You can't ungrow a baby, or unshoot a bullet, or unfight a war. How could I have ever thought you could? 2015, Catherine Banner, The Heart at War (The Last Descendants Trilogy; Book III), [Toronto, Ont.]: Doubleday Canada, →ISBN, page 385:

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