unshoot

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verb

To shoot back (the bolt of a door); to allow opening.

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Meanings

verbunshoot (third-person singular simple present unshoots, present participle unshooting, simple past and past participle unshot)

present singular third person unshoots · participle present unshooting · participle past unshot · past unshot

  1. transitiveTo shoot back (the bolt of a door); to allow opening.
  2. transitiveTo 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
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    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

Origin

From un- + shoot.

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APA

unshoot. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unshoot

MLA

“unshoot.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unshoot. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unshoot,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unshoot.

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