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  1. swoop, slidenoun

    (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale

    "the violinist was indulgent with his swoops and slides"

    Synonyms:
    slide, playground slide, sloping trough, lantern slide, slideway, sliding board, coast, chute, microscope slide, glide

  2. swoopnoun

    a very rapid raid

    Synonyms:
    slide

  3. swoopverb

    a swift descent through the air

    Synonyms:
    slide

  4. pounce, swoopverb

    move down on as if in an attack

    "The raptor swooped down on its prey"; "The teacher swooped down upon the new students"

    Synonyms:
    pounce, swoop up

  5. swoopverb

    move with a sweep, or in a swooping arc

    Synonyms:
    pounce, swoop up

  6. swoop, swoop upverb

    seize or catch with a swooping motion

    Synonyms:
    pounce, swoop up

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. swoopverb

    Synonyms:
    seize (as a hawk its prey), clutch, catch up, pounce upon

  2. swoopverb

    Synonyms:
    stoop, descend, come down, bear down

  3. swoopnoun

    Synonyms:
    clutch, seizure

  4. swoopnoun

    Synonyms:
    stoop, descent

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How to use swoop in a sentence?

  1. David Barnard:

    It's not like they fixed everything in one fell swoop.

  2. Barack Obama:

    My biggest suggestion would be for the BRT just to start having conversations on a bipartisan basis on lifting the embargo. It doesn't necessarily have to happen or even should happen all in one fell swoop, but I think you look at the economic opportunities that are provided, they are significant.

  3. Don Hinkle:

    The atheists just swoop in and with a simple letter written by a threatening lawyer – they win, they kick Christ and Christianity and the First Amendment right out of a public school.

  4. Markus Soeder:

    There is no point in just breaking it off now. Imagine: we open everything in one fell swoop, then within two, three weeks we will be in a situation maybe even worse than before.

  5. Matt Damon:

    You guys did it here in one fell swoop and I wish that could happen in my country, but it’s such a personal issue for people that we cannot talk about it sensibly, people get so emotional that even when you make a suggestion about not selling AK-47s to people on terror watch lists, that’s a non-starter.


Translations for swoop

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  • picada, precipitarse, lanzarse en picada, volar en picada, picado, precipitación, arrebato, abalanzarseSpanish
  • syöksy, syöksyä, hyökätä, rynnätäFinnish
  • précipitationFrench
  • झपट्टाHindi
  • whakatopa, topa, kurutohitohiMāori
  • налетатьRussian
  • vrhnúť sa (na), pustiť sa strmhlavSlovak
  • திடீர்த்தாக்குதல்Tamil

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