Definitions for gunshot

gunshot gun·shot

Spelling: [guhn-shot]
IPA: /ˈgʌnˌʃɒt/

Gunshot is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 177 anagrams from letters in gunshot (ghnostu).

Definitions for gunshot

noun

  1. the shooting of a gun:
  2. a bullet, projectile, or other shot fired from a gun.
  3. the range of a gun:

adjective

  1. made by a gunshot.

Origin of gunshot

late Middle English word dating back to 1375-1425; See origin at gun1, shot1

Examples for gunshot

He had been taught that an animal should not bleed to death through a gunshot wound.

He ran the harder, and in a few seconds would have been out of gunshot.

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

It took a gunshot, however, to make the story public property.

The trial in humans will locate patients whose hearts have stopped after a gunshot wound or other injury.

A wooden chair whizzed past my left ear and smashed into the steel door like a gunshot.

Two Reuters journalists at the scene reported seeing two dead bodies, one with gunshot wounds to the head.

Seven years later, he was found dead with two gunshot wounds to the head in what was ruled a suicide.

He was badly hacked, and from a gunshot wound in the vitals he was bleeding to death.

But the animals are cunning and seldom expose themselves to gunshot.

Word Value for gunshot
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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