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skjuta

Pronunciation: /²ɧʉːta/

“skjuta” is a Swedish word. Its 11 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to shoot ((a projectile with) a weapon), (often, idiomatically – see the usage notes below) to fire ((a projectile with) a weapon)
  2. to shoot (hit with a projectile fired from a weapon)
  3. to shoot, to fire (send off (a ball, puck, or the like) with force)
  4. to skyrocket, to shoot up
  5. to eject; to jettison (from something, with force)
  6. to project (in a more or less dramatic(-sounding) fashion – like "shoot (out, etc.)," but for something static); to jut, to protrude, etc.
  7. to push, to shove (something, moving it)
  8. to push back, to postpone (move to later)
  9. to postpone
  10. to scan (a barcode or similar)
  11. 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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