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Definition of 'swoop'English
Verb
( en-verb) (intransitive)
to fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive
- The lone eagle swooped down into the lake, snatching its prey, a small fish.
to move swiftly, as if with a sweeping movement, especially to attack something
- The dog had enthusiastically swooped down on the bone.
* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
- There was a person called Nana who ruled the nursery. Sometimes she took no notice of the playthings lying about, and sometimes, for no reason whatever, she went swooping about like a great wind and hustled them away in cupboards.
To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing.
- A hawk swoops a chicken.
To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
* Dryden
- And now at last you came to swoop it all.
* Glanvill
- The grazing ox which swoops it [the medicinal herb] in with the common grass.
To pass with pomp; to sweep.
- (Drayton)
Noun
( en-noun)
an instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downward
- The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. – Sun Tzu
* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
- One evening, when the Boy was going to bed, he couldn't find the china dog that always slept with him. Nana was in a hurry, and it was too much trouble to hunt for china dogs at bedtime, so she simply looked about her, and seeing that the toy cupboard door stood open, she made a swoop .
an act of rushedly doing something
- Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop . – John Webster
(music) passing quickly from one note to the next
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