gunshot


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Synonyms for gunshot

the act of shooting a gun

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They done it just out of gunshot, but so everybody could see.
He ran the harder, and in a few seconds would have been out of gunshot. The word was given, and the men fired.
A party of them came on first, and viewed our posture, traversing the ground in the front of our line; and, as we found them within gunshot, our leader ordered the two wings to advance swiftly, and give them a salvo on each wing with their shot, which was done.
Calling one of his lieutenants, he was on the point of ordering a reconnaissance, when gunshots were heard.
He had heard several distant gunshots, but that sort of thing was not uncommon, and they had made no impression upon him.
Then evening comes and the children call, and the buffaloes lumber up out of the sticky mud with noises like gunshots going off one after the other, and they all string across the gray plain back to the twinkling village lights.
SUSPICIONS around Monday's alleged encounter near Bhopal deepened after the doctor who performed autopsies of the eight slain SIMI suspects revealed that the men died from gunshot wounds mostly in the abdomen and the chest.
This study was aimed to evaluate the status of total oxidant, antioxidant capacity and DNA damage caused by gunshot for wild falcons.
Objective: To assesses the pattern of maxillofacial gunshot and blast injuries amongst law enforcing forces personnel.
Published in June in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the study examined trauma data from the Denver Health Medical Center between 2000 and 2013, during which time nearly 1,700 people were admitted with gunshot injuries.
The Guardian, developed by Shooter Detection Systems, LLC (SDS), the world leader in gunshot detection technologies, was developed from military outdoor and soldier-worn gunshot detection systems that have been protecting our soldiers, and more recently critical infrastructure such as power utilities, from sniper attack.
His specialty is gunshot acoustics, and he's helping shore up the science behind a relatively new forensics field.
by REJIMON K / reji@timesofoman.com John Philip, the Indian fuel station employee in Ibri, died from gunshot wounds, the victim's relative in Oman said.
YONCALLA - A Junction City woman was shot twice by her boyfriend Saturday afternoon, and after law enforcement arrived, he turned the gun on himself, dying from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Douglas County Sheriff's Office reported.
She was taken to hospital for medical treatment for the gunshot wound.