Come with me to the hill, I'll show you a good place to snipe from.
Source: tatoeba (8681123)
Snipe
//snaɪp//
Synonyms for "snipe" (79 found)
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3 entriesis a
2 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
32 entriesShowing 16 of 32 words.
Translations
88 translations across 47 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- snip noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
Armenian
1 entries- մորակտցար noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
Asturian
1 entries- gacha noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
Breton
1 entries- gioc'h noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
Bulgarian
4 entries- бекас noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
- глупак noun (fool, blockhead)
- изстрел от засада noun (shot from a concealed place)
- фас noun (slang: cigarette butt)
Catalan
1 entries- becadell noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 沙錐鳥 /沙锥鸟 noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
Cornish
1 entries- kiogh noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
Czech
1 entries- bekasina noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
Danish
2 entries- bekkasin noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
- hingstfugl noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
Dutch
1 entries- snip noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
Faroese
1 entries- snípa noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
Finnish
4 entries- fimppi noun (slang: cigarette butt)
- kurppa noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
- laivamekaanikko noun (naval slang: member of the Engineering Department)
- pikkolopullo noun (small wine bottle)
French
1 entries- bécassine noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
Galician
3 entries- aguaneta noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
- chiva noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
- gacha noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
German
1 entries- Schnepfe noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
Greek
1 entries- μπεκατσίνι noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
Hebrew
1 entries- חרטומן noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
Hungarian
2 entries- orvlövés noun (shot from a concealed place)
- szalonka noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
Icelandic
1 entries- hrossagaukur noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
Ido
1 entries- bekaseto noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
Irish
1 entries- naoscach noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
Italian
2 entries- beccaccia noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
- beccaccino noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
Japanese
3 entries- 田鴫 noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
- 狙撃する verb (shoot at individuals from a concealed place)
- 狙撃する verb (shoot with a sniper rifle)
Kazakh
1 entries- тауқұдірет noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
Latvian
1 entries- sloka noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
Lithuanian
1 entries- tilvikas noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- bjakut noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
Macedonian
1 entries- шљука noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
Navajo
1 entries- tábąąsdísí noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
Norman
1 entries- bécassine noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- bekkasin noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
Norwegian Nynorsk
4 entries- bekkasin noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
- humregauk noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
- jordgeit noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
- mekregauk noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
Polish
3 entries- bekas noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
- bekas kszyk noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
- kszyk noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
Portuguese
3 entries- bobo noun (fool, blockhead)
- narceja noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
- tolo noun (fool, blockhead)
Romanian
4 entries- becațină noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
- becață noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
- nerod noun (fool, blockhead)
- nărod noun (fool, blockhead)
Russian
1 entries- бека́с noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- bod-saic (Tiree) noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
- crom-riabhach noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
- gobhar-adhair noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
- naosg noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- šljuka noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
Slovene
1 entries- sloka noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
Spanish
3 entries- agachadiza noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
- agachona noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
- caica noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
Swedish
1 entries- beckasin noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
Tatar
1 entries- чуллык noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
Thai
3 entries- นกปากซ่อม noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
- ซุ่มยิง verb (shoot at individuals from a concealed place)
- ซุ่มยิง verb (shoot with a sniper rifle)
Ukrainian
1 entries- бека́с noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
Vietnamese
1 entries- dẽ giun noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
Welsh
1 entries- gïach noun (bird of the family Scolopacidae)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
This is a great rifle to snipe with, if you can handle the recoil.
Source: tatoeba (8681124)
This game has no sniper rifles, so you can't snipe in it.
Source: tatoeba (8681125)
If you so much as lift your head an inch, that bastard is going to snipe you.
Source: tatoeba (8681127)
Showing 4 of 16 available sentences.
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