Swoop can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| swoop - seize or catch with a swooping motion | ||
| swoop - move with a sweep, or in a swooping arc | ||
| swoop - move down on as if in an attack; "The raptor swooped down on its prey"; "The teacher swooped down upon the new students" | ||
Noun |
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| swoop - (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale; "the violinist was indulgent with his swoops and slides" | ||
| swoop - a swift descent through the air | ||
| swoop - a very rapid raid |
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| 1. | noun | This is a golden opportunity we'd be stupid to pass up. Let's get to work and finish it all in one fell swoop. | |
| 2. | noun | The samurai decapitated his opponent in one fell swoop. | |
| 3. | noun | I felt naked in a strange world. I felt as perhaps a bird may feel in the clear air, knowing the hawk wings above and will swoop. | |
| 4. | noun | The swoop of bats in the darkness over her was as the wings of unearthly creatures. | |
| 5. | noun | East, West and squally South-west, with a roar, / swoop down on Ocean, and the surf and sand / mix in dark eddies, and the watery floor / heave from its depths, and roll huge billows to the shore. / Then come the creak of cables and the cries / of seamen. | |
| 6. | noun | The police lied in wait, ready to swoop in. |
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| noun | |
| This is a golden opportunity we'd be stupid to pass up. Let's get to work and finish it all in one fell swoop. | |
| The samurai decapitated his opponent in one fell swoop. | |
| I felt naked in a strange world. I felt as perhaps a bird may feel in the clear air, knowing the hawk wings above and will swoop. | |
| The swoop of bats in the darkness over her was as the wings of unearthly creatures. | |
| East, West and squally South-west, with a roar, / swoop down on Ocean, and the surf and sand / mix in dark eddies, and the watery floor / heave from its depths, and roll huge billows to the shore. / Then come the creak of cables and the cries / of seamen. | |
| The police lied in wait, ready to swoop in. | |