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noun

Swoop n. A falling on and seizing, as the prey of a rapacious bird; the act of swooping. "The eagle fell,... and carried away a whole litter of cubs at a swoop."

verb

Swoop v. t. (past & past part. swooped; pres. part. swooping)

To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing; as, a hawk swoops a chicken.

To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep. "And now at last you came to swoop it all." "The grazing ox which swoops it (the medicinal herb) in with the common grass."

Swoop v. i.

To descend with closed wings from a height upon prey, as a hawk; to stoop.

To pass with pomp; to sweep. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Swoop'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... party of hostile Lipans made a swoop around and skirting the garrison, killing a herder—a discharged drummer-boy—in sight of the flag-staff. Of course great excitement followed. Captain J. G. Walker, of the Mounted Rifles, immediately ...

— The Memoirs of General P. H. Sheridan, Complete • General Philip Henry Sheridan

... said Hollanden, glaring through the smoke. "Under the circumstances, you are privileged to rave and ramp around like a wounded lunatic, but for heaven's sake don't swoop down on me like that! Especially when I'm—when I'm doing all I ...

— The Third Violet • Stephen Crane

... struggle between Britain and Germany. The involvement of other nations is merely accidental. It is ourselves whom Germany is making this huge effort to crush, and but for one small circumstance she would have come within a measurable prospect of success. To swoop down on France through Belgium, to crush her in three weeks, to seize her fleet, and with the combined fleets of France and Germany to attack ours—that was the proposition, and who can say that it might not have succeeded? The small circumstance which Germany overlooked was Belgium, ...

— A Surgeon in Belgium • Henry Sessions Souttar

... lit on the snow at a wary distance, and began to strut back and forth. Presently, its suspicions at rest, the raven advanced, and with eager beak began its dreadful meal. By this time another, which had seen the first one's swoop, was in view through the ether; then another; then another. In an hour the brotherhood of ravens, thus ...

— The Blazed Trail • Stewart Edward White

... one moment Mr Bickersdyke's memory poised motionless, like a hawk about to swoop. Then it darted at the mark. Everything came to him in a flash. The hands of the clock whizzed back. He was no longer Mr John Bickersdyke, manager of the London branch of the New Asiatic Bank, lying on a sofa in the Cumberland Street Turkish Baths. He was Jack Bickersdyke, clerk in the employ ...

— Psmith in the City • P. G. Wodehouse

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