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WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
THESAURUS
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POS

Noun, Verb (transitive), Verb (intransitive)

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun swoop has 3 senses

swoop(n = noun.communication) slide - (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale; "the violinist was indulgent with his swoops and slides"

is a kind of glissando

Derived form verb swoop₂

swoop(n = noun.act) - a very rapid raid;

Derived form verb swoop₃

swoop(n = noun.act) - a swift descent through the air;

is a kind of

descent

Derived form verb swoop₁

Verb swoop has 3 senses

swoop(v = verb.motion) pounce - move down on as if in an attack; "The raptor swooped down on its prey"; "The teacher swooped down upon the new students"

is one way to come down, descend, fall, go down

Derived form noun swoop₃

Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

swoop(v = verb.motion) - move with a sweep, or in a swooping arc;

is one way to

move

Derived form noun swoop₁

Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

swoop(v = verb.contact) swoop up - seize or catch with a swooping motion;

is one way to snap, snatch, snatch up

Derived form noun swoop₂

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

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CIDE DICTIONARY

swoop, v. t. [OE. swopen, usually, to sweep, As. swāpan to sweep, to rush; akin to G. schweifen to rove, to ramble, to curve, OHG. sweifan to whirl, Icel. sveipa to sweep; also to AS. swīfan to move quickly. Cf. Sweep, Swift, a. & n., Swipe, Swivel.].

To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing; as, a hawk swoops a chicken. [1913 Webster]
To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep. [1913 Webster]
"And now at last you came to swoop it all." [1913 Webster]

"The grazing ox which swoops it [the medicinal herb] in with the common grass." [1913 Webster]

swoop, v. i.

To descend with closed wings from a height upon prey, as a hawk; to stoop. [1913 Webster]
To pass with pomp; to sweep. Drayton. [1913 Webster]

swoop, n.

A falling on and seizing, as the prey of a rapacious bird; the act of swooping. [1913 Webster]

"The eagle fell, . . . and carried away a whole litter of cubs at a swoop." [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

swoop, v. & n.
--v.
1 intr. (often foll. by down) descend rapidly like a bird of prey.
2 intr. (often foll. by on) make a sudden attack from a distance.
3 tr. (often foll. by up) colloq. snatch the whole of at one swoop.
--n. a swooping or snatching movement or action.

Idiom

at (or in) one fell swoop see FELL(4).

Etymology

perh. dial. var. of obs. swope f. OE swapan: see SWEEP

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THESAURUS

swoop

belly buster, belly flop, belly whopper, blow, cannonball, cascade, cataract, chute, collapse, come down, comedown, crash, crash dive, debacle, declension, declination, defluxion, descend, descending, descension, descent, dip down, dive, down, downbend, downcome, downcurve, downfall, downflow, downgrade, downpour, downrush, downtrend, downturn, downward trend, drop, drop down, drop off, dropping, fall, fall down, fall off, falling, gainer, go down, go downhill, gravitate, gravitation, header, inclination, jackknife, lose altitude, nose dive, nose-dive, parachute, parachute jump, pitch, plop, plummet, plummeting, plump, plunge, plunk, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon, pour down, power dive, precipitate, rain, rapids, running dive, rush, skin-dive, sky dive, sky-dive, sound, stationary dive, stoop, stroke, swan dive, sweep, swoop down, take a header, trend downward, waterfall

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swoop

Taking

N taking, reception, deglutition, appropriation, prehension, prensation, capture, caption, apprehension, deprehension, abreption, seizure, expropriation, abduction, ablation, subtraction, withdrawal, abstraction, ademption, adrolepsy, dispossession, deprivation, deprivement, bereavement, divestment, disherison, distraint, distress, sequestration, confiscation, eviction, rapacity, rapaciousness, extortion, vampirism, theft, resumption, reprise, reprisal, recovery, clutch, swoop, wrench, grip, haul, take, catch, scramble, taker, captor, subduction, taking, privative, prehensile, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, lupine, rapacious, raptorial, ravenous, parasitic, bereft, at one fell swoop, give an inch and take an ell.

Descent

VB descend, go down, drop down, come down, fall, gravitate, drop, slip, slide, rappel, settle, plunge, plummet, crash, decline, set, sink, droop, come down a peg, slump, dismount, alight, light, get down, swoop, stoop, fall prostrate, precipitate oneself, let fall, tumble, trip, stumble, titubate, lurch, pitch, swag, topple, topple over, tumble over, topple down, tumble down, tilt, sprawl, plump down, come down a cropper.