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aim at

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aim something at someone or something
to point or direct something at someone or something. Wally aimed the hose at Sarah and tried to soak her.
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Both the squire and I returned the shot, but as we had nothing to aim at, it is probable we only wasted powder.
Treasure Island by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
His head was all on one side, and one of his eyes was half shut up, as if he were taking aim at something with an invisible gun.
Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context
Well, the good quality of an age, the defect of which lies in the direction of intellectual anarchy and confusion, may well be eclecticism: in style, as in other things, it is well always to aim at the combination of as many excellences as possible--opposite excellences, it may be--those other beauties of prose.
The Guardian by Pater, Walter Horatio View in context
 
 
 
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