Snipe Synonyms

snīp
Attack in speech or writing
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. ambush
  2. shoot
  3. attack
  4. round
  5. murder
  6. assail
  7. lash-out
  8. assault
Aim and shoot with great precision
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. sharpshoot

Words Related to Snipe

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Snipe Sentence Examples

  • The stork is seen for about 170 days, the house-swallow 160, the snow-goose 260, the snipe 220.

  • Of small game, hares, jungle fowl, peacocks, partridges, snipe, woodcock, wild ducks and geese, and green pigeons are numerous in the tarai, and jungle fowl and pheasants in the hills.

  • Pheasants, ducks, geese and snipe are abundant, and Dr C. Collingwood in his Naturalist's Rambles in the China Seas mentions .Ardea prasinosceles and other species of herons, several species of fly-catchers, kingfishers, shrikes and larks, the black drongo, the Cotyle sinensis and the Prinia sonitans.

  • The woods are well stocked with red and roe deer, wild boar, hares, rabbits, pheasants, woodcock and snipe.

  • Of game birds the most characteristic is the partridge (ruffed grouse), exclusively a woodland bird; the Wilson's snipe and the woodcock are not uncommon in favourable localities, and several species of ducks are found especially in the bays and marshes near the coast during the seasons of migration.

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