shoot up (English, verb)
expansion: shoot up (third-person singular simple present shoots up, present participle shooting up, simple past and past participle shot up)
Senses:
glosses: To grow taller or larger rapidly.
tags: figuratively
intransitive
sometimes
glosses: To fire many bullets or shells at.
tags: transitive
glosses: To use up (ammunition) by shooting.
tags: transitive
glosses: To inject (a drug) intravenously.
tags: intransitive
transitive
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shoot, up.
Forms:
form: shoots up
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shooting up
tags: participle
present
form: shot up
tags: participle
past
form: shot up
tags: past