shooting up (Meaning)
shooting up
to shoot or shoot at especially recklessly, to inject (a narcotic drug) into a vein, to inject a narcotic into a vein
Synonyms & Antonyms of shooting up
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- proliferating
- multiplying
- burgeoning
- snowballing
- mushrooming
- ballooning
- expanding
- bourgeoning
- cresting
- enlarging
- waxing
- intensifying
- accumulating
- escalating
- mounting
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No weak antonyms found.
shooting up Sentence Examples
- The young boy was rushed to the hospital after shooting up a dangerous drug.
- The addicts were shooting up heroin in the abandoned building.
- The nurse carefully prepared the syringe for the patient's shooting up.
- The police officer witnessed the teenager shooting up in the alleyway.
- The rehabilitation center helped the recovering addict break his shooting up habit.
- The basketball player's career ended after he was caught shooting up steroids.
- The botanist demonstrated the proper technique for shooting up a rare flower.
- The construction workers were shooting up a high-rise building.
- The meteorologist predicted a quick shooting up of temperatures before the storm hit.
- The plant's leaves were shooting up rapidly towards the sun.
FAQs About the word shooting up
to shoot or shoot at especially recklessly, to inject (a narcotic drug) into a vein, to inject a narcotic into a vein
increasing,soaring, skyrocketing,surging, building up, rocketing, swelling, zooming, peaking, proliferating
tumbling, falling, slumping,plunging, plummeting, collapsing, waning, lessening, dropping, contracting
The young boy was rushed to the hospital after shooting up a dangerous drug.
The addicts were shooting up heroin in the abandoned building.
The nurse carefully prepared the syringe for the patient's shooting up.
The police officer witnessed the teenager shooting up in the alleyway.
