shooting

punzante

Describe un dolor agudo y repentino que parece recorrer una parte del cuerpo.

En inglés sencillo: Describing a sharp pain that suddenly seems to travel through part of your body.

• I felt a shooting pain in my leg.
• Shooting pains kept him awake last night.
• Does the shooting pain reach your shoulder?

Sinónimos: darting, stabbing

Expresiones frecuentes: shooting pain, sharp shooting pain

veloz, fugaz

Que se mueve de repente y a gran velocidad, o crece muy deprisa.

En inglés sencillo: Moving suddenly and quickly, or growing very fast.

• We saw a shooting star.
• Shooting beams of light swept across the water.
• The painting shows shooting rays spreading from the sun.

Sinónimos: darting, racing

Expresiones frecuentes: shooting star, shooting beams, shooting rays

tiroteo

Suceso en el que alguien dispara un arma de fuego contra otra persona.

En inglés sencillo: An event in which someone fires a gun at another person.

• Two people were injured in the shooting.
• Police arrested a suspect after yesterday’s shooting.
• The town has experienced several shootings this year.

Cómo se usa: shooting of someone (Police are investigating the shooting of a shopkeeper.)

Sinónimos: gun attack

Expresiones frecuentes: fatal shooting, school shooting, shooting incident

disparo

Acción de disparar balas o lanzar algo rápidamente hacia fuera, como rayos de luz.

En inglés sencillo: The act of firing bullets or sending something out quickly, such as rays of light.

• Target shooting requires a steady hand.
• We heard shooting from the practice range.
• The experiment involved the shooting of light through a tiny hole.

Cómo se usa: shooting of something (The device allows the shooting of a narrow beam of light.)

Sinónimos: firing

Expresiones frecuentes: target shooting, shooting of rays, shooting practice

punzada

Dolor agudo y repentino que parece recorrer el cuerpo.

En inglés sencillo: A sudden sharp feeling of pain that seems to travel through your body.

• He felt a shooting in his head.
• A painful shooting ran down her arm.
• The strange shooting in his back soon passed.

Cómo se usa: a shooting in something (She felt a shooting in her shoulder.)

Sinónimos: twinge, stab

Expresiones frecuentes: shooting in something, painful shooting