1(of coloured cloth) woven with a warp and weft of different colours, giving a contrasting effect when looked at from different angles:a dress of shot silk
interspersed with a different colour:dark hair shot with silver
(shot through with) suffused with (a particular feature or quality):the mist was shot through with orange spokes of light
2 informal ruined or worn out:a completely shot engine will put you out of the racemy nerves are shot
[predic.]US & Australian/NZ drunk.
Phrases
get (or be) shot of
British informal get (or be) rid of:Helen couldn’t wait to get shot of me
shot to pieces (or to hell)
informal ruined:the day already looks shot to hell, and it’s not even noon
