verb, noun
verb [V] ~ (at sb/sth)
1 to shoot at sb from a hiding place, usually from a distance:
Gunmen continued to snipe at people leaving their homes to find food.
2 to criticize sb in an unpleasant way
sniping noun [U]:
Aid workers remain in the area despite continuous sniping.
noun (plural snipe) a bird with a long straight beak that lives on wet ground
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for snipe is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does snipe appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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