Snipe - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|snaɪp|
Brit.
|snaɪp|
noun
- Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcocks
- a gunshot from a concealed location
- a gunshot from a concealed location
verb
- hunt or shoot snipe
- aim and shoot with great precision
- attack in speech or writing (syn: assail, assault, attack, lash out, round)
- aim and shoot with great precision
- attack in speech or writing (syn: assail, assault, attack, lash out, round)
Extra examples
There's an enemy soldier on the roof, sniping at our men.
His former associates have been sniping at him in the press.
Word forms
verb
I/you/we/they: snipe
he/she/it: snipes
present participle: sniping
past tense: sniped
past participle: sniped
I/you/we/they: snipe
he/she/it: snipes
present participle: sniping
past tense: sniped
past participle: sniped
noun
singular: snipe
plural: snipes or snipe
singular: snipe
plural: snipes or snipe
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