Definition of Swoop

1. Noun. (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale. "The violinist was indulgent with his swoops and slides"

Exact synonyms: Slide
Generic synonyms: Glissando
Category relationships: Music
Derivative terms: Slide

2. Verb. Move down on as if in an attack. "The teacher swooped down upon the new students"
Exact synonyms: Pounce
Generic synonyms: Come Down, Descend, Fall, Go Down
Specialized synonyms: Stoop
Derivative terms: Pounce

3. Noun. A very rapid raid.
Generic synonyms: Foray, Maraud, Raid

4. Verb. Move with a sweep, or in a swooping arc.
Generic synonyms: Move

5. Noun. A swift descent through the air.
Generic synonyms: Descent

6. Verb. Seize or catch with a swooping motion.
Exact synonyms: Swoop Up
Generic synonyms: Snap, Snatch, Snatch Up

Definition of Swoop

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

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

3. n. A falling on and seizing, as the prey of a rapacious bird; the act of swooping.

Definition of Swoop

1. Verb. to fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive ¹

2. Verb. to move swiftly, as if with a sweeping movement, especially to attack something ¹

3. Noun. an instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downward ¹

4. Noun. an act of rushedly doing something ¹

5. Noun. (music) passing quickly from one note to the next ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Swoop

1. to make a sudden descent [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Swoop

swonk
swonken
swoon
swooned
swooner
swooners
swoonier
swooniest
swoonily
swooning
swooningly
swoonings
swoons
swoony
swoop (current term)
swoop up
swooped
swooper
swoopers
swoopier
swoopiest
swooping
swoopingly
swoops
swoopstake
swoopy
swooses
swoosh
swooshed

Literary usage of Swoop

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1884)
"swoop-a-hoo ! here we go ; All a-gliding along; swoop-a-hoo ! here we go ; With a roller-skate ... swoop-a-hoo ! cheeks so red ; Full of laughter, the air ! ..."

2. A new pronouncing dictionary of the Spanish and English languages by Mariano Velázquez de la Cadena, Edward Gray, Juan L. Iribas (1902)
"Swoon, ». Desmayo, deliquio, desfallecimiento, pasmo, sincope. swoop, -'- El acto de echarse na ave de rapiña sobre sn presa. swoop ..."

3. Great Senators of the United States Forty Years Ago, (1848 and 1849): With by Oliver Dyer (1889)
"The old lion got up, and with one swoop of his paw he drove Brecken- ridge to the Bible and me to the bottle, and we have both been there ever since. ..."

4. Java, Facts and Fancies by Augusta de Wit (1905)
"... same impatient fling — ready for a swoop and rake — so exactly resembling sea-gulls skimming along, as to render the comparison almost a description. ..."

5. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1884)
"swoop-a-hoo ! here we go ; All a-gliding along; swoop-a-hoo ! here we go ; With a roller-skate ... swoop-a-hoo ! cheeks so red ; Full of laughter, the air ! ..."

6. A new pronouncing dictionary of the Spanish and English languages by Mariano Velázquez de la Cadena, Edward Gray, Juan L. Iribas (1902)
"Swoon, ». Desmayo, deliquio, desfallecimiento, pasmo, sincope. swoop, -'- El acto de echarse na ave de rapiña sobre sn presa. swoop ..."

7. Great Senators of the United States Forty Years Ago, (1848 and 1849): With by Oliver Dyer (1889)
"The old lion got up, and with one swoop of his paw he drove Brecken- ridge to the Bible and me to the bottle, and we have both been there ever since. ..."

8. Java, Facts and Fancies by Augusta de Wit (1905)
"... same impatient fling — ready for a swoop and rake — so exactly resembling sea-gulls skimming along, as to render the comparison almost a description. ..."

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