shot
3
8.6
- adjective
- /ʃɑt/
- Specialized
- God, my eyesight is so shot.
Examples
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Her nerves are too shot to work live now, she says, and besides, her face doesn't hold up on camera anymore.
Fiction book (1991) -
This is a really deep charcoal shade that shot through with silver flashes.
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I'm just pretty shot right now, so I just need some coffee.
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Then again, your credibility is pretty shot, Lucy.
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- Listen, the recorder's totally shot, so I gotta go pick up a new one.
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You know it's perfectly shot, it's perfectly cropped, it's perfectly laid out, and I'm so bloody bored, I'd rather buy a motor racing magazine.
Fiction book (1998) -
You cheap-shot, gutless bastard!
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Interestingly, the following day after 'Sausagegate,' I felt really rubbish, my digestion was totally shot, I felt sluggish, and I had a headache from hell.
Blog text (17) -
Molina showed some good hand speed in looking at some of his past fights, but he's very shot and that could hurt him against the towering Khan.
Blog text (34) -
The dress is made from a shot fabric that glimmers in shades of blue and gold under the light.
Synonyms
11
7.6
Bright colors that seem to change when seen from different angles
1
9.9
Shining with a changing color or light when you look from different angles
1
6.0
Showing different colours when seen from different angles
Antonyms
Idioms
3
7.7
An early warning action or comment showing a stronger response may follow
Compounds
12
1.8
A small glass that holds one small drink of strong alcohol like whiskey or tequila
3
2.7
A photo taken at the best moment that shows the main thing in the picture clearly
- Specialized
2
2.9
An extra vaccine dose you get after the first to make protection stronger
- Specialized
1
3.6
A basketball shot made by sweeping the arm and releasing the ball high with the hand farthest from the basket
- Specialized
1
2.6
A free throw in basketball taken from the line when an opponent breaks the rules
1
3.5
A basketball shot where a player jumps and pushes the ball down into the hoop with one or both hands
- Specialized
1
3.8
A soft shot in tennis that lands just over the net and drops quickly, hard to reach
- Specialized
1
6.1
A short low golf shot that makes the ball run along the ground toward the hole
1
3.6
A stroke in tennis or similar racket sports made with the back of the hand facing the ball
1
3.9
A basketball move in which a player stands still and uses both hands to put the ball in the basket
- Archaic
1
9.8
A metal cylinder filled with small balls fired from a cannon to spread them widely
- Jargon
1
4.9
A close-range basketball shot made with an underhand scooping motion over a defender
1
9.9
A tall building used to make small round lead balls for guns by dropping hot lead into water
- Specialized
1
8.6
A hole that workers drill in rock or earth to hold explosives for blasting
- Archaic
1
9.9
A metal cylinder filled with many small balls that scatter when fired from a cannon
- Jargon
A pool shot where the player holds the cue almost vertical so the cue ball curves around another ball
A tropical plant grown for its edible root that people use to make starch for cooking
- Specialized
A soft metal mixture mostly made of lead used to make small pellets for shotgun shells
- NSFW
A video or film with bright, swirling images that look unreal, like a strong drug trip
How Iridescent
Surface Forms
Etymology
Shot used about fabric comes from a weaving word for sending a thread across the cloth, called a 'shot', and those different threads make the colour seem to change. That's why shot fabric looks one colour from one angle and another colour from another.