shot out

English

Verb

shot out

1. simple past and past participle of shoot out

Adjective

shot out (not comparable)

1. Of an area, having had all game eradicated from hunting.
2. Of a species or population, completely extirpated from an area due to overshooting by hunters.
   • 1956, Durward Leon Allen, Pheasants in North America, Stackpole Company, page 456:

     [S]tates may be under pressure to stock cock birds because locally they have been "shot out."

Anagrams

• outshot