1[countableC]CSHOOT the action of shooting a gun, or the sound that this makes 枪炮射击;枪炮声
She says she heard a gunshot at about midnight.
她说她大约在午夜时分听到了一声枪响。
2[uncountableU]PMW the bulletsfired from a gun 〔射出的〕子弹
gunshot wounds
枪伤
Examples from the Corpus
gunshot• Authorities were talking to him by telephone shortly before noon on Friday when they heard a gunshot and the line went dead.• a gunshotwound• His brother, Omar, 39, died from gunshots to the head instantly after the two were attackedMonday.• I heard gunshots in the back-ground as the trooper talked on the radio to Farris.• No crises, no suddenterror, no gunshots and screaming in the night.• When I fire one gunshot, they go.• Another was already on the way, off-target because Zeno hadn't expected the gunshot.• One of the neighbours was sure to have made an anonymous call to the police, reporting the gunshot.• All this was in the background when the gunshotsrang out in the National Theater.
gunshot wounds• Since 1986, gunshot wounds to children age 16 and under have increased by 300 percent in majorurban areas.• Each of them will testify that in his opiniondeath in each instance was caused by gunshot wounds in the head.• The reports said two other women were being treated for gunshot wounds.• Deaths from gunshot wounds have soared among blackyouths, while deaths from other forms of violence have remainedlevel.• It's three years to the day since Tony Alliss died from gunshot wounds.• It was in a plasticsack and had gunshot wounds.• All had multiplegunshot woundsexcept the 4-year-old, who suffered one wound to the chest, authorities said.• Real bodies; real blood - and with 115 very real bayonet wounds and six gunshot wounds between them.