gunshot
guhn shot
- n the act of shooting a gun
- The 17th President, Andrew Johnson, took office the day that Lincoln died from gunshot wounds.
- There were no visible gunshot woundsalthough part of Hitler's cranium was missingand "the marked smell of bitter almonds and the presence of cyanide compounds in internal .
- Indeed, according to Wintemute, gunshot wounds are about 7 12 times as likely to result in death as attacks with a knife--and 145 times as likely as blows from feet or fists.