Definition of Swoop

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Definition of Swoop

Swoop

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.

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

To pass with pomp; to sweep.

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

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Swoop Quotations

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.
Sun Tzu

Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment.
Edwidge Danticat

He was mostly leaping tall buildings in the beginning. There were cases where he would leap off a tall building or swoop down, and at that point he would look like he was flying, I suppose. It was just natural to draw him like that.
Joe Shuster

And from a poise at this station the plane may swoop down, at great disadvantage if close to the back of the wave, at various slopes and directions till it cuts into the air that is being raised by the face of the following wave, which again enables it to resume its velocity.
Lawrence Hargrave

Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.
John Webster

Swoop Translations

swoop in German is schnappen

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