gunshot
noun/ˈɡʌnʃɒt/
/ˈɡʌnʃɑːt/
- [uncountable] the bullets that are fired from a gun
- He died of a single gunshot wound to the chest.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + gunshot- hear
- wound
- victim
- the noise of a gunshot
- the sound of a gunshot
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- [countable] the firing of a gun; the sound of it being fired
- I heard the sound of gunshots out in the street.
- We heard a loud bang; it sounded like a gunshot.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + gunshot- hear
- wound
- victim
- the noise of a gunshot
- the sound of a gunshot
- [uncountable] (old-fashioned) the distance that a bullet from a gun can travel
- out of/within gunshot He was out of gunshot.
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