point-blank
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- adjective
- /ˈpɔɪntˌblæŋk/
:
a quemarropa
- A victim was shot and killed point-blank.
- point-blank range
- shot point-blank
She got there and then he, you know, he'd been shot at point blank range and he died that night in the hospital.
- She got there and then he, you know, he'd been shot at point blank range and he died that night in the hospital.
- Jenny went down to go down and see him and she got there and, you know, he'd been shot at point blank range and he died that night in the hospital.
- And getting shot to point blank range in Prague, I had a blue, blue vest on, guy in a shotgun.
Examples
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the man she witnessed shooting her husband at point blank range, was Robin Jackson.
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At the camera operator's command, Hunt draws a .22-caliber pistol at point-blank range and shoots Ramsey three times in the chest.
Academic text (1996) -
I was almost shot in the face at point-blank range.
Fiction book (1991) -
Some airport personnel were not so lucky, like the ticket agent and security guard Richards shot at point-blank range when he arrived at the airport.
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A native boy holds a rusty old pistol, which he uses at point-blank range against several rabbits.
Fiction book (2002) -
Earl is aiming at point-blank range from the top of the embankment.
Fiction book (1997) -
According to the police, he had just left the restaurant and was walking a block and a half back to his office when the gunman stepped out of this doorway, fired seven times at point blank range, then fled on foot.
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In March 1582, William was shot at point-blank range in Antwerp by a hired assassin.
Academic text (1999) -
FRICK instinctively pulls the trigger and SHOOTS HIM at point-blank range.
Fiction book (1992) -
The hunter shot the deer at point-blank range, ensuring a clean kill.
Antonyms
How Close
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Point-blank comes from an old French phrase point blanc meaning 'white point', the small mark on a target. So when a shooter was very close and fired straight at that mark with no extra aim, people called it a 'point-blank' shot, and now point-blank means 'very close'.