Word Finder - swooped

definition

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.

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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.

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To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing.

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A hawk swoops a chicken.

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To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.

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To pass with pomp; to sweep.

He leaned down and swooped her into his arms.

Suddenly, towards evening, a band of robbers swooped down upon them.

Giddon swooped her into his arms and pushed through the brush.

They went inside the garden when these wolves swooped down, said the woman, pointing to the French soldiers.

He took her hands and helped her to her feet and then swooped her into his arms.

We swooped down the big hill right onto the very busy harbor.

As I ran past the circus head quarters down Walcott fen an owl swooped past.

A more imaginative work by the same artist is a figure of a farmer who has just shot an eagle that swooped upon his grandson.

Both planes swooped up, from my 'mind 's eye ', little more than 100 feet from the ground.

Matthew Burton was arrested after officers swooped on a suspected crack den in Dunlin, Letchworth Garden City, on September 15.

The plane then swooped in a tight circle back to the shore by now fairly low.

On one occasion, around lunchtime, people in the village heard airplane gunfire and a German plane swooped overhead, firing its guns.

A police helicopter however over Bedford for hours as officers swooped on travelers camped on a well-known beauty spot (Mill Meadows ).

It didn't take the majors long to discover Coldplay, and Parlophone soon swooped in and signed the band to a five album deal.

It has flattering elbow-length dolman sleeves and a swooped, rounded open front.

The darkness swooped down and engulfed them until neither one could see the other, and just as suddenly, Aidan, Mark and the black shadow vanished into the ground.

The pair hold their own until Destroyah swooped down, picked up Godzilla Junior and tossed him into a nuclear reactor.

As fast as Kris ran, he couldn't catch her.  He grew more baffled when she seemed to pull ahead of him without any sign of the exhaustion she'd showed when they stopped.  Desperation could motivate, and so could fear for her sister.  He pushed himself harder to catch her.  Thunder boomed overhead.  Forms he assumed were demons swooped above the canopy, casting shadows.  He caught glimpses of fur and wings through leaves and ran until his chest was heaving.  Hannah remained ahead of him, though he realized he was beginning to gain on her.  He had to reach her before the demons did and swept her away, as they had Kiki.

Swiss police swooped on Friday to arrest a 45-year-old man.