shot out

adjective

Of an area, having had all game eradicated from hunting.

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Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of shoot out
adjectiveshot out (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf an area, having had all game eradicated from hunting.
  2. not comparableOf 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
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