swooping
present participle of swoop
swooping (plural swoopings)
The motion of something that swoops.
swooping
That swoops or swoop.
Source: Wiktionary
Swoop, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swooped; p. pr. & vb. n. Swooping.] Etym: [OE. swopen, usually, to sweep, As. swapan to sweep, to rush; akin to G. schweifen to rove, to ramble, to curve, OHG. sweifan to whirl, Icel. sveipa to sweep; also to AS. swifan to move quickly. Cf. Sweep, Swift, a. & n., Swipe, Swivel.]
1. To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing; as, a hawk swoops a chicken.
2. To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep. And now at last you came to swoop it all. Dryden. The grazing ox which swoops it [the medicinal herb] in with the common grass. Glanvill.
Swoop, v. i.
1. To descend with closed wings from a height upon prey, as a hawk; to swoop.
2. To pass with pomp; to sweep. [Obs.] Drayton.
Swoop, n.
Definition: A falling on and seizing, as the prey of a rapacious bird; the act of swooping. The eagle fell, . . . and carried away a whole litter of cubs at a swoop. L'Estrange.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 November 2024
(noun) a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked; “she said her son thought Hillary was a bitch”
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