Synonyms for swoop
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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

Matched Categories

1. • Descend
   • Foray
   • Glissando
   • Move
   • Music

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 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. 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.

2. 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.

3. Novartis Chief Executive Joe Jimenez:

   We have over 25,000 field sales representatives around the world, we train them very hard on compliance, whenever we see any activity of bad behaviour, we swoop in and then we get rid of that behavior -- one way or another.

4. Markus Soeder:

   I think, basically, the lockdown will have to be extended for the time being, 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. 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.