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puhekieltä to fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive
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The lone eagle swooped down into the lake, snatching its prey, a small fish.
puhekieltä to move swiftly, as if with a sweeping movement, especially to attack something
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The dog had enthusiastically swooped down on the bone.
1922, (w), (w)
- 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.
puhekieltä To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing.
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A hawk swoops a chicken.
puhekieltä 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.
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(rfquotek)
An instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downward.
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The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. – Sun Tzu
- 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.
A sudden act.
John Webster
- Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.
puhekieltä A quick passage from one note to the next.
2008, Russell Dean Vines, Composing Digital Music For Dummies (page 281)
- Originally, computers' attempts at making music were recognizable by their beeps and boops and weird swoops.
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