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swoop
[ swoop ]
verb (used without object)
- to sweep through the air, as a bird or a bat, especially down upon prey.
- to come down upon something in a sudden, swift attack (often followed by down and on or upon ):
The army swooped down on the town.
verb (used with object)
- to take, lift, scoop up, or remove with or as with one sweeping motion (often followed by up, away, or off ):
He swooped her up in his arms.
noun
- an act or instance of swooping; a sudden, swift descent.
Synonyms: , , ,
swoop
/ ɳː /
verb
- intr; usually foll by down, on, or upon to sweep or pounce suddenly
- tr; often foll by up, away, or off to seize or scoop suddenly
noun
- the act of swooping
- a swift descent
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of swoop1
Idioms and Phrases
- at / in one fell swoop, all at once or all together, as if by one blow:
The quake flattened the houses at one fell swoop.
More idioms and phrases containing swoop
see one fell swoop .Example Sentences
It is estimated that the bird of prey had swooped on at least 50 people since early March, drawing blood from several victims.
Flamstead Parish Council said a falconer had been brought into the Hertfordshire village to try and catch the bird of prey which had been swooping at residents for several weeks.
An entire community, many of them low income and Latino, are poised to lose their jobs and homes in one fell swoop.
O’Mara sees those beliefs very much in evidence at Musk’s fancifully named Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, and his wrecking-ball efforts to raze huge swaths of the federal government in a single, unfettered swoop.
The wreck of a World War Two ship famously rests in its deeper waters where the Arctic Terns swoop for fish.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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