skjuta
Pronunciation: /²ɧʉːta/
“skjuta” is a Swedish word. Its 11 meanings in English:
verb
- to shoot ((a projectile with) a weapon), (often, idiomatically – see the usage notes below) to fire ((a projectile with) a weapon)
- to shoot (hit with a projectile fired from a weapon)
- to shoot, to fire (send off (a ball, puck, or the like) with force)
- to skyrocket, to shoot up
- to eject; to jettison (from something, with force)
- to project (in a more or less dramatic(-sounding) fashion – like "shoot (out, etc.)," but for something static); to jut, to protrude, etc.
- to push, to shove (something, moving it)
- to push back, to postpone (move to later)
- to postpone
- to scan (a barcode or similar)
- to shoot up, to shoot (inject oneself with a syringe (with a recreational drug, especially heroin))
Etymology
From Old Swedish skiūta, from Old Norse skjóta, from Proto-Germanic *skeutaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd-.
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