Synonyms of the word

cannon

• n. A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base…
• n. A bone of a horse's leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
• n. (historical) A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.
• n. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) A carom.
• n. (baseball, figuratively, informal) The arm of a player that can throw well.
• n. (engineering) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve…
• n. (printing) Alternative form of canon (a large size of type).
• v. To bombard with cannons.
• v. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To play the carom billiard shot. To strike two balls with the cue ball.
• v. To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.
• v. To collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound.

artillery

• n. Large cannon-like weapons, transportable and usually operated by more than one person.
• n. An army unit that uses such weapons.
• n. Gunnery.

carom

• n. (cue sports, especially billiards) A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with…
• n. A billiard-like Indian game in which players take turns flicking checker-like pieces into one of four…
• v. (intransitive) To make a carom (shot in billiards).
• v. To strike and bounce back; to strike (something) and rebound.
• n. (spices) ajwain.

discharge

• v. To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
• v. To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear.
• v. To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
• v. To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
• v. To expel or let go.
• v. To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
• v. (electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).
• v. To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
• v. To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
• v. To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
• v. To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the…
• v. To unload a ship or another means of transport.
• v. To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or…
• v. To give forth; to emit or send out.
• v. To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
• v. (transitive, textiles) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
• v. (obsolete, Scotland) To prohibit; to forbid.
• n. (medicine, uncountable) pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection…
• n. the act of accomplishing (an obligation); performance.
• n. the act of expelling or letting go.
• n. (electricity) the act of releasing an accumulated charge.
• n. (medicine) the act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
• n. (military) the act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
• n. (hydrology) the volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of…

gun

• n. A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
• n. A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm.
• n. (surfing) A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed…
• n. (cellular automata) A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.
• n. (colloquial, metonymically) A person who carries or uses a rifle, shotgun or handgun.
• n. (colloquial, usually in the plural) The biceps.
• n. (nautical, in the plural) Violent blasts of wind.
• v. (with “down”) To shoot someone or something, usually with a firearm.
• v. To speed something up.
• v. To offer vigorous support to a person or cause.
• v. To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone.
• v. To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.
• v. Nonstandard spelling of going to.

hit

• v. (heading, physical) To strike.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
• v. (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
• v. (heading) To attain, to achieve.
• v. (transitive) To affect negatively.
• v. (heading, games) To make a play.
• v. (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
• n. A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches…
• n. (music) A recorded song that receives widespread recognition and success, mainly through radio airplay.
• n. An attack on a location, person or people.
• n. (computing, Internet) The result of a search of a computer system or of a search engine.
• n. (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
• n. An approximately correct answer in a test set.
• n. (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s…
• n. (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
• n. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
• n. (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
• n. A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
• adj. Designating of a popular song.
• pron. (dialectal) It.

ordnance

• n. Military equipment, especially weapons and ammunition.
• n. Artillery.

shank

• adj. (slang) Bad.
• n. The part of the leg between the knee and the ankle.
• n. Meat from that part of an animal.
• n. (ornithology, colloquial) A redshank or greenshank, various species of Old World wading birds in the genus…
• n. A straight, narrow part of an object, such as a key or an anchor; shaft; stem.
• n. The handle of a pair of shears, connecting the ride to the neck.
• n. The center part of a fishhook between the eye and the hook, the 'hook' being the curved part that bends…
• n. A protruding part of an object, by which it is or can be attached.
• n. The metal part on a curb bit that falls below the mouthpiece, which length controls the severity of the…
• n. (sports) A poorly played golf shot in which the ball is struck by the part of the club head that connects…
• n. (slang) An improvised stabbing weapon; a shiv.
• n. A loop forming an eye to a button.
• n. (architecture) The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.
• n. (metalworking) A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it.
• n. (printing, dated) The body of a type; between the shoulder and the foot.
• n. (shoemaking) The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel.
• n. Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round.
• n. The end or remainder, particularly of a period of time.
• n. The main part or beginning of a period of time.
• v. (archaic, Ulster) To travel on foot.
• v. (slang) To stab, especially with an improvised blade.
• v. (slang) To remove another's trousers, especially in jest; to depants.
• v. (transitive, chiefly golf, tennis, soccer) To hit or kick the ball in an unintended direction.
• v. (intransitive) To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting…

shot

• adj. (colloquial) Worn out or broken.
• adj. (of material, especially silk) Woven from warp and weft strands of different colours, resulting in an…
• adj. Tired, weary.
• adj. Discharged, cleared, or rid of something.
• n. The result of launching a projectile or bullet.
• n. (sports) The act of launching a ball or similar object toward a goal.
• n. (athletics) The heavy iron ball used for the shot put.
• n. (uncountable) Small metal balls used as ammunition.
• n. (uncountable, military) Metal balls (or similar) used as ammunition; not necessarily small.
• n. (referring to one's skill at firing a gun) Someone who shoots (a gun) regularly.
• n. An opportunity or attempt.
• n. A remark or comment, especially one which is critical or insulting.
• n. (slang, sports, US) A punch or other physical blow.
• n. A measure of alcohol, usually spirits, as taken either from a shot-glass or directly from the bottle,…
• n. A single serving of espresso.
• n. (photography, film) A single unbroken sequence of photographic film exposures, or the digital equivalent;…
• n. A vaccination or injection.
• n. (US, Canada, baseball, informal) A home run that scores one, two, or three runs (a four run home run is…
• n. (US federal prison system) Written documentation of a behavior infraction.
• n. (fisheries) A cast of one or more nets.
• n. (fisheries) A place or spot for setting nets.
• n. (fisheries) A single draft or catch of fish made.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of shoot.
• v. (transitive) To load (a gun) with shot.
• n. A charge to be paid, a scot or shout.
• interj. (colloquial, South Africa) Thank you.

stroke

• n. An act of stroking (moving one's hand over a surface).
• n. A blow or hit.
• n. A single movement with a tool.
• n. One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or…
• n. A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced, or accomplished; also, something done…
• n. A line drawn with a pen or other writing implement, particularly.
• n. A streak made with a brush.
• n. The time when a clock strikes.
• n. (swimming) A style, a single movement within a style.
• n. (medicine) The loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted.
• n. (obsolete) A sudden attack of any disease, especially when fatal; any sudden, severe affliction or calamity.
• n. (rowing) The oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the other oars are guided.
• n. (rowing) The rower who is nearest the stern of the boat.
• n. (professional wrestling) Backstage influence.
• n. (squash (sport)) A point awarded to a player in case of interference or obstruction by the opponent.
• n. (sciences) An individual discharge of lightning.
• n. (obsolete) The result or effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness.
• n. An addition or amendment to a written composition; a touch.
• n. A throb or beat, as of the heart.
• n. (obsolete) Power; influence.
• n. (obsolete) appetite.
• v. (transitive) To move one's hand or an object (such as a broom) along (a surface) in one direction.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To hit the ball with the bat in a flowing motion.
• v. (masonry) To give a finely fluted surface to.
• v. (transitive) To row the stroke oar of.