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Definition of machine-gun verb from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

machine-gun

verb

machine-gun somebody/somethingVerb Forms present simple I / you / we / they machine-gun

he / she / it machine-guns

past simple machine-gunned

-ing form machine-gunning

to shoot at someone or something with a machine gun A group of prisoners was taken into the forest and machine-gunned.

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