"shoot up" meaning in English

See shoot up in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: shoots up [present, singular, third-person], shooting up [participle, present], shot up [participle, past], shot up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|shoot<,,shot> up}} shoot up (third-person singular simple present shoots up, present participle shooting up, simple past and past participle shot up)
  1. (intransitive, sometimes figurative) To grow taller or larger rapidly. Tags: figuratively, intransitive, sometimes Translations (To grow taller rapidly): ھەڵچوون (hellçûn) (Central Kurdish), 飆升 (biāoshēng) (Chinese Mandarin), emporschießen (German), espichar (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-shoot_up-en-verb-H5qyO0Jl Disambiguation of 'To grow taller rapidly': 86 1 6 6 2
  2. (transitive) To fire many bullets or shells at. Tags: transitive Translations (To fire many bullets at): تەقە کردن (teqe kirdin) (Central Kurdish)
    Sense id: en-shoot_up-en-verb-zkLLYHde Disambiguation of 'To fire many bullets at': 1 87 8 2 1
  3. (transitive) To use up (ammunition) by shooting. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-shoot_up-en-verb-sQlkgUWD
  4. (intransitive, transitive) To inject (a drug) intravenously. Tags: intransitive, transitive Translations (To inject (a drug) intravenously): xutar-se (Catalan), tykittää (Finnish), rännittää (Finnish), shooter (French), schießen (German), bucarsi (Italian), farsi in vena (Italian), skjuta upp (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-shoot_up-en-verb-r08Sp5R8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs formed with "up", Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Central Kurdish translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 4 12 46 4 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "up": 23 7 20 40 10 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 19 8 15 52 7 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 29 6 14 46 5 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 31 5 10 50 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 20 7 19 47 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Central Kurdish translations: 19 2 5 71 2 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 20 7 19 47 7 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 18 9 18 46 8 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 20 8 16 49 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 20 8 15 52 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 22 7 14 51 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 20 7 18 47 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 19 6 17 50 7 Disambiguation of 'To inject (a drug) intravenously': 2 1 3 93 1
  5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shoot, up.
    Sense id: en-shoot_up-en-verb-3eK0QGbS
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: shoot-'em-up, shoot-em-up, shoot-up

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Our operating costs have shot up due to the fuel shortage.",
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          "ref": "2024 July 29, Michael Goodier, “Olive oil fraud and mislabelling cases hit record high in EU”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "As a result, prices have shot up. One hundred kilos of extra virgin olive oil from Jaén in Spain cost €787 in November last year, up from €262.50 five years earlier, making olive oil a more attractive market for fraudsters.",
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          "text": "There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. \"Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].\"",
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          "ref": "2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 27:00 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 2022-11-03:",
          "text": "The Johnston emerges from a smokescreen to find the Haruna at close range. So of course it shoots up the battleship's superstructure whilst ducking back into the smoke as Kongō tries to take it out using its main battery.",
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        "(transitive) To fire many bullets or shells at."
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        "(transitive) To use up (ammunition) by shooting."
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        "To inject (a drug) intravenously."
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        "(intransitive, transitive) To inject (a drug) intravenously."
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          "code": "ca",
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          "sense": "To inject (a drug) intravenously",
          "word": "xutar-se"
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          "code": "fi",
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          "sense": "To inject (a drug) intravenously",
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          "word": "schießen"
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        "(transitive) To fire many bullets or shells at."
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        "(transitive) To use up (ammunition) by shooting."
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "biāoshēng",
      "sense": "To grow taller rapidly",
      "word": "飆升"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "To grow taller rapidly",
      "word": "emporschießen"
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      "roman": "hellçûn",
      "sense": "To grow taller rapidly",
      "word": "ھەڵچوون"
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      "sense": "To grow taller rapidly",
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      "roman": "teqe kirdin",
      "sense": "To fire many bullets at",
      "word": "تەقە کردن"
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      "sense": "To inject (a drug) intravenously",
      "word": "xutar-se"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "To inject (a drug) intravenously",
      "word": "tykittää"
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      "lang": "Finnish",
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      "sense": "To inject (a drug) intravenously",
      "word": "shooter"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "To inject (a drug) intravenously",
      "word": "schießen"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "To inject (a drug) intravenously",
      "word": "bucarsi"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "To inject (a drug) intravenously",
      "word": "farsi in vena"
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