gunning

Speech parts

1. gunning - Noun

2. gunning - Verb

Derived from gun

3. Gunning - Proper noun

Meaning

The act or practice of hunting or shooting game with a gun.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

hawking chase fire gun hunting sport shooting firing shoot discharge hunt sporting stimulate spur arming
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Antonyms

retard reduce screen slow decrease delay
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Phrases with the word

be gunning for

Examples

A Pune woman’s brother and two of her accomplices, who were on the run after gunning down her estranged husband and parents in-laws in Chennai, were arrested by the Chennai police in a dramatic fashion in Solapur after a cinematic chase. Source: Internet

Answering a question on why his team have failed to get a winning run going since the turn of the year, Middendorp gave a lengthy lecture on how he never said his team were gunning for the Absa Premiership title. Source: Internet

And in the case of North Korea, Pompeo reportedly assured Kim in pre-summit talks in Pyongyang this month that the US is not gunning for his regime as part of its demands for denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. Source: Internet

Gunning and Rossi, Analytic Functions of Several Complex Variables, p. 2. Define f to be holomorphic if it is analytic at each point in its domain. Source: Internet

Democrats gunning for him in his final year of being president was self-serving and an attempt to grab the spotlight and momentum heading into the election. Source: Internet

Former professional soldier Miroslav Marcek admitted to gunning down Kuciak and fiancee Martina Kusnirova at their home near the capital Bratislava in a gangland-style hit in February 2018. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

gunnery sergeant gunnery unit gunnie Gunning fog index Gunning transceiver logic gunningite