GUNSHOT


Meaning of GUNSHOT in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a gunshot/bullet wound

Deaths from gunshot wounds have soared in this part of London.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

wound

The reports said two other women were being treated for gunshot wounds .

It's three years to the day since Tony Alliss died from gunshot wounds .

All had multiple gunshot wounds except the 4-year-old, who suffered one wound to the chest, authorities said.

It was in a plastic sack and had gunshot wounds .

Since 1986, gunshot wounds to children age 16 and under have increased by 300 percent in major urban areas.

Real bodies; real blood - and with 115 very real bayonet wounds and six gunshot wounds between them.

Six had minor gunshot wounds , the seventh had tripped over a fallen tree and broken an arm.

■ VERB

hear

She says she heard a loud gunshot and saw a man lying on the ground.

After hostage negotiators heard the gunshot over the phone, police waited about a half hour before entering the home.

I heard gunshots in the back-ground as the trooper talked on the radio to Farris.

Authorities were talking to him by telephone shortly before noon on Friday when they heard a gunshot and the line went dead.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a gunshot wound

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

All this was in the background when the gunshots rang out in the National Theater.

Another was already on the way, off-target because Zeno hadn't expected the gunshot .

Authorities were talking to him by telephone shortly before noon on Friday when they heard a gunshot and the line went dead.

His brother, Omar, 39, died from gunshots to the head instantly after the two were attacked Monday.

I heard gunshots in the back-ground as the trooper talked on the radio to Farris.

No crises, no sudden terror, no gunshots and screaming in the night.

One of the neighbours was sure to have made an anonymous call to the police, reporting the gunshot .

When I fire one gunshot , they go.

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