aiming

verbpoint or direct at a goal

Synonyms for aiming

verb point or direct at a goal

Antonyms for aiming

Word Origin & History

early 14c., "target;" late 14c., "guess;" from aim (v.). Meaning "action of aiming" is from early 15c. (to take aim, originally make aim); that of "thing intended, purpose" is from 1620s.

Example Sentences for aiming

Were I a man, she should suppose I was aiming to carry the county—Popularity!

They really ought to fire a few rounds--after a week of aiming and snapping.

For to throw a tomato at the son of Lawyer Gamely was aiming very high.

They were aiming at some one in the water between us and them.

He was aiming at the glowing crack where the green light was issuing.

Poe raised his gun, and aiming surely at the chief, pulled trigger.

Who knows but we may be aiming at the greater, and fail of attaining the lesser?

As usual the Jerries were not aiming to close with the Yanks.

You seem to be aiming at me as directly as a small boy aims his snowball.

“I was aiming in a general eastern direction,” Rathburn replied in a drawl.