unshoot

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ shoot.

Verb

unshoot (third-person singular simple present unshoots, present participle unshooting, simple past and past participle unshot)

1. (transitive) To shoot back (the bolt of a door); to allow opening.
2. (transitive) To undo the effects of shooting (someone).
   • 2007, Jack Coughlin, Donald A[lan] Davis, Kill Zone: A Sniper Novel, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 4:

     Anyway, we can't unshoot him, can we? Can't change a thing.

   • 2015, Catherine Banner, The Heart at War (The Last Descendants Trilogy; Book III), [Toronto, Ont.]: Doubleday Canada, →ISBN, page 385:

     You can't ungrow a baby, or unshoot a bullet, or unfight a war. How could I have ever thought you could?

Anagrams

• Houston, Southon