snipe

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - noun

1. Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family;
of marshy areas;
similar to the woodcocks
• Hypernyms:
shorebird, shore bird, limicoline bird
• Hyponyms:
whole snipe, Gallinago gallinago, Wilson's snipe, Gallinago gallinago delicata, great snipe,
woodcock snipe, Gallinago media, jacksnipe, half snipe, Limnocryptes minima, dowitcher
• Member Holonyms:
wisp
2. a gunshot from a concealed location
• Hypernyms:
gunfire, gunshot

II - verb

1. hunt or shoot snipe
• Hypernyms:
hunt, run, hunt down, track down
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- In the summer they like to go out and snipe
2. aim and shoot with great precision
• Syn:
sharpshoot
• Derivationally related forms:
sniper, sharpshooter (for: sharpshoot)
• Hypernyms:
blast, shoot
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
3. attack in speech or writing
- The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker
• Syn:
attack, round, assail, lash out, assault
• Derivationally related forms:
assaultive (for: assault), assaulter (for: assault), assailant (for: assail), attack (for: attack), attacker (for: attack)
• Hypernyms:
knock, criticize, criticise, pick apart
• Hyponyms:
abuse, clapperclaw, blackguard, shout, claw,
vitriol, rip, whang, bombard, barrage, blister,
scald, whip, rubbish
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
- Somebody ----s PP
- Somebody ----s PP (for: lash out)
- Somebody ----s PP (for: round)

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  attack, round, assail, lash out, assault, sharpshoot