Synonyms of the word

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.

accelerator

• n. One who, or that which, accelerates.
• n. A device for causing acceleration.
• n. (chemistry) A substance which speeds up chemical reactions.
• n. (vehicles) An accelerator pedal.
• n. (photography) A chemical that reduces development time.
• n. (physics) A device that accelerates charged subatomic particles.
• n. (physiology, medicine) A muscle or nerve that speed the performance of an action.
• n. (computing) accelerator key.

arm

• n. The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand.
• n. (anatomy) The extended portion of the upper limb, from the shoulder to the elbow.
• n. A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.
• n. A long, narrow, more or less rigid part of an object extending from the main part or centre of the object,…
• n. (geography) A bay or inlet off a main body of water.
• n. A branch of an organization.
• n. (figuratively) Power; might; strength; support.
• n. (baseball, slang) A pitcher.
• n. (genetics) One of the two parts of a chromosome.
• n. A group of patients in a medical trial.
• v. To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms.
• v. To supply with arms or limbs.
• adj. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Poor; lacking in riches or wealth.
• adj. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To be pitied; pitiful; wretched.
• n. (usually used in the plural) A weapon.
• n. (in the plural) heraldic bearings or insignia.
• v. To supply with armour or (later especially) weapons.
• v. To prepare a tool or a weapon for action; to activate.
• v. To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency.
• v. (figuratively) To furnish with means of defence; to prepare for resistance; to fortify, in a moral sense.
• v. To fit (a magnet) with an armature.

armament

• n. A body of forces equipped for war.
• n. (military, naval) All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship…
• n. Any equipment for resistance.
• n. The process of building up military capacity.

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.

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…

firing

• n. The process of applying heat or fire, especially to clay etc to produce pottery.
• n. The fuel for a fire.
• n. The discharge of a gun or other weapon.
• n. The dismissal of someone from a job.
• v. present participle of fire.

gas

• n. (uncountable, chemistry) Matter in a state intermediate between liquid and plasma that can be contained…
• n. (countable, chemistry) A chemical element or compound in such a state.
• n. (uncountable) A flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture (typically predominantly methane)…
• n. (countable) A hob on a gas cooker.
• n. (US) Methane or other waste gases trapped in one's belly as a result of the digestive process.
• n. (slang) A humorous or entertaining event or person.
• n. (baseball) A fastball.
• v. (transitive) To kill with poisonous gas.
• v. (intransitive) To talk, chat.
• v. (intransitive) To emit gas.
• v. (transitive) To impregnate with gas.
• v. (transitive) To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers.
• n. (uncountable, US) Gasoline; a derivative of petroleum used as fuel.
• n. (US) Gas pedal.
• v. (US) To give a vehicle more fuel in order to accelerate it.
• v. (US) To fill (a vehicle's fuel tank) with fuel.
• adj. (Ireland, colloquial) comical, zany; fun, amusing.

gunman

• n. A criminal armed with a gun, especially a professional killer.

gunslinger

• n. In the Old West: a person who carried a gun and was an expert at the quick draw.
• n. In modern usage: a person who behaves with the bravado expected of someone who would duel with guns.

hitman

• n. A contract killer; especially one paid by mafia.
• n. (soccer) goalscorer, someone who scores goals.

liquidator

• n. One who liquidates.
• n. One supporting the political policy of liquidationism; a liquidationist.
• n. Any of the workers involved in cleaning up the Chernobyl disaster.

manslayer

• n. Someone who commits manslaughter.

murderer

• n. A person who commits murder.

ordnance

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

pedal

• n. A lever operated by one's foot that is used to control a machine or mechanism, such as a bicycle or piano.
• n. (medicine) a foot or footlike part.
• n. (music) An effects unit, especially one designed to be activated by being stepped on.
• n. (equestrian, humorous) A stirrup.
• n. (music) The ranks of pipes played from the pedal-board of an organ.
• v. To operate a pedal attached to a wheel in a continuous circular motion.
• v. To operate a bicycle.
• adj. Of or relating to the foot.

pump

• n. A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas.
• n. An instance of the action of a pump; one stroke of a pump; any action similar to pumping.
• n. A device for dispensing liquid or gas to be sold, particularly fuel.
• n. (bodybuilding) A swelling of the muscles caused by increased blood flow following high intensity weightlifting.
• n. (colloquial) A ride on a bicycle given to a passenger, usually on the handlebars or fender.
• n. (US, obsolete, slang) The heart.
• v. (transitive) To use a pump to move (liquid or gas).
• v. (transitive, often followed by up) To fill with air.
• v. (transitive) To move rhythmically, as the motion of a pump.
• v. (transitive) To shake (a person's hand) vigorously.
• v. (transitive) To gain information from (a person) by persistent questioning.
• v. (intransitive) To use a pump to move liquid or gas.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To be going very well.
• v. (sports) To kick, throw or hit the ball far and high.
• v. (Scotland, slang) To pass gas; to fart.
• v. (computing) To pass (messages) into a program so that it can obey them.
• n. (Britain) A type of shoe, a trainer or sneaker.
• n. (chiefly Canada, US) A type of women's shoe which leaves the instep uncovered and has a relatively high…
• n. A dancing shoe.
• n. A type of shoe without a heel.

shoot

• v. To launch a projectile.
• v. To move or act quickly or suddenly.
• v. (sports) To act or achieve.
• v. (surveying) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
• v. (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
• v. To develop, move forward.
• v. To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
• v. (carpentry) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
• v. To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.^W.
• n. The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
• n. A photography session.
• n. A hunt or shooting competition.
• n. (professional wrestling, slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
• n. The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
• n. A rush of water; a rapid.
• n. (mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
• n. (weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
• n. A shoat; a young pig.
• n. An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; a…
• interj. A mild expletive, expressing disbelief or disdain.

shooter

• n. Someone who shoots something; a gunner, archer etc.
• n. (slang) A firearm.
• n. A video game in which shooting enemies (or targets) is the main objective.
• n. (professional wrestling slang) A professional wrestler who uses actual fighting moves as part of his style,…
• n. A large marble used for knocking smaller marbles out of a chalk circle.
• n. An alcoholic beverage typically served in a shot glass.
• n. A shooting star.

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.

throttle

• n. A valve that regulates the supply of fuel-air mixture to an internal combustion engine and thus controls…
• n. The lever or pedal that controls this valve.
• n. The windpipe or trachea.
• v. (transitive) To cut back on the speed of (an engine, person, organization, network connection, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To strangle or choke someone.
• v. (intransitive) To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.
• v. (intransitive) To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.
• v. (transitive) To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.

torpedo

• n. (military) A cylindrical explosive projectile that can travel underwater and is used as a weapon.
• n. A fish having wings that generate electric current, a kind of electric ray.
• n. (regional) A submarine sandwich.
• n. (archaic, military) A naval mine.
• n. (obsolete, military) An explosive device buried underground and set off remotely, to destroy fortifications,…
• n. (slang) A professional gunman or assassin.
• n. (rail transport, US) a small explosive device attached to the top of the rail to provide an audible warning…
• n. A kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard object.
• n. An automobile with a torpedo body.
• v. To send a torpedo, usually from a submarine, that explodes below the waterline of the target ship.
• v. To sink a ship with one of more torpedoes.
• v. To undermine or destroy any endeavor with a stealthy, powerful attack.

treadle

• n. A foot-operated pedal or lever that generates circular motion.
• n. (biology) Chalaza.
• v. (intransitive) To use a treadle.

triggerman

• n. (US slang) A hired gunman; a bodyguard.

weapon

• n. An instrument of attack or defense in combat or hunting, e.g. most guns, missiles, or swords.
• n. An instrument or other means of harming or exerting control over another.
• n. (informal, humorous) A tool of any kind.