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2. send forth, discharge, fire or fire off, let fly, let off, eject; project, propel, throw, cast, sling, fling, toss, heave, chuck, catapult, launch.
3. fire at or on, shoot at, snipe at, aim at, draw or get a bead on; open fire, bombard, shell, pepper, pelt, blitz, barrage, Sl. blast.
4. direct, send, throw, flash.
5. hunt, stalk, course, chase, pursue.
6. move suddenly, start, spring, leap, spurt, dash ahead, pass; dart, whisk, whiz, tear, rush, fly; bound, run, sprint, race, speed, hie, hasten, hurry, post; scoot, scud, scuttle, Inf. skedaddle.
7. variegate, diversify, streak, stripe, striate, interweave.
8. Often

shoot out reach out, stretch out, stick out, put out, throw out.
9. put forth buds or shoots, burgeon, sprout, germinate, pullulate, come up or forth, spring up, arise; grow, develop, flourish, thrive, luxuriate, mushroom, boom.
10. detonate, explode, set off, Obs. detonize.
11. extend, jut out, project, protrude, bulge out,
stick out.
12. flow through, permeate, pervade, penetrate, pierce, pass through.
13. shoot at or

for Informal, strive toward or for,
try for, aim for, set one's sights on.
-n. 14. (all of plants) bud, burgeon, sprout, sprig; stem, twig, small branch; offshoot, Bot. runner, Bot. stolon, Bot. sucker; scion, cutting, slip, Hort. graft.

shop, n. 1. small store, retail store, shoeshop, Sl. headshop, boutique, clothing store; department.
2. workshop, studio, atelier.
3. plant, factory, business, office.
-v.4. window-shop, look to buy, be in the market for, search or hunt for.

shore¹, n. 1. seashore, seaside, beach, strand, sea-coast, coast, seaboard; foreshore, waterside, bank, Fr. rive, Archaic, rivage; margin, border, edge, brink, Archaic. brim.
2. land, dry land, ground.

shore², n. 1. support, prop, strut, brace, buttress, stay, underpinning, reinforcement.

-v. 2. Usu.

shore up support, hold up, prop up,
underpin, reinforce, strengthen, brace, buttress.

short, adj. 1. little, small, Chiefly Scot. wee, miniature, miniscule, minikin, diminutive, Scot. cutly; tiny, elfin, bantam, slight, (of women) petite, Lilliputian, Inf. Tom Thumb, Sl. pint-sized, Sl. pocket-sized, Sl. sawed-off, Sl. knee-high to a grasshopper, dwarfish, runty, runtish, pygmy; atomic, amoebic; squat, stunted, stubby, dumpy, truncated, (of trees or shrubbery) pollard.
2. momentary, temporary, impermanent. See - shortlived.
3. concise, succinct, brief, to the point, short-winded, straightforward, direct, pointed, emphatic; abbreviated, abridged, compressed, summarized, thumbnail, condensed, curtailed, curtate, contracted, Obs. brevi-ate; compact, lean, bare, close, neat; comprehensive, summary, synoptic, Inf. meaty; pithy, sententious, epigrammatic, crisp, precise, exact, gnomic; laconic, terse, elliptical, breviloquent, Rare, pauciloquent.
4. curt, sharp, abrupt. See - short-tempered.
5. inadequate, insufficient, lacking, wanting, in arrears, short-handed, missing, shy; meager, sparse, scanty, unplentiful, scarce, tight, slender, slim, lean, thin, scraggy; below standard, poor, low, deficient, defective, failed.
6. Cookery, (all of pastry) crumbly, flaky, crusty, crispy.