Swoop

Definition: Swoop

Swoop

Noun

1. Rapid sliding up or down the musical scale; "the violinist was indulgent with his swoops and slides".

2. A very rapid raid.

3. A swift descent through the air.

Verb

1. Move down on as if in an attack; "The raptor swooped down on its prey"; "The teacher swooped down upon the new students".

2. Move with a sweep, or in a swooping arc.

3. Seize or catch with a swooping motion.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "swoop" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Swoop

Descent

Dismount, alight, light, get down; swoop; stoop; fall prostrate, precipitate oneself; let fall.

Taking

Take away, carry away, bear away, take off, carry off, bear off; adeem; abstract; hurry off with, run away with; abduct; steal; ravish; seize; pounce upon, spring upon; swoop to, swoop down upon; take by storm, take by assault; snatch, reave.

Clutch, swoop, wrench; grip; (retention); haul, take, catch; scramble.

Adverb: at one fell swoop.

Violence

Adverb: violently; Adjective: amain; by storm, by force, by main force; with might and main; tooth and nail, vi et armis, at the point of the sword, at the point of the bayonet; at one fell swoop; with a high hand, through thick and thin; in desperation, with a vengeance; a outrance, a toute outrance; headlong, head foremost.

Crosswords: Swoop

Me Swoop no see nothing. (The Transformers: The Movie; writing credit: Ron Friedman)

He'll fly so high, he'll swoop so low. (Legend Of A Mind; performing artist: Moody Blues)

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Books

• Flying Fur, Fin and Scale: Strange Animals That Swoop and Soar (reference)

• Swoop and Other Stories (reference)

• Swoop Flies Too High (Dino Dudes) (reference)

• The Land Beyond the Forest: Dracula and Swoop (Sun & Moon Classics , 112. American Theater in Literature) (reference)

• The Swoop! (Collected Works of P.G. Wodehouse) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• One Fell Swoop [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

With one fell swoop. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "swoop": ad at one fell swoop ♦ at one fell swoop ♦ at one swoop ♦ swoop down ♦ swoop down upon smb. ♦ swoop on ♦ swoop up ♦ swoop upon. Additional references.

Albanian

zbritje poshtë, kap (affect, apprehend, arrest, attack, avail oneself of, captivate, capture, catch, catch on, catch out, catch up, clasp, clutch, cop, embrace, gain, get, get hold of, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, handle, have, hitch, hold, hook, intercept, nab, nail, nip, nobble, overcome, overtake, pick up, pinch, reach, rummage out, seize, snap, snatch, soak up, tackle, take, track down, unhang), bie poshtë (stoop). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هجوم (aggression, assault, attack, blow, dash, offence, offensive, onrush, onset, onslaught, pounce, push, raid, rush), ‏نقض على (pounce, rush), ‏نقض (break, countermand, dart, descend, disallow, hurl curses, negative, precipitate, rebuttal, recantation, repeal, rescind, storm, veto), ‏إنقضاض (assault, dive, onrush, onslaught, run, rush, stoop, storm), ‏إبتلع (bolt, engulf, gulf, gulp, overwhelm, pouch, swallow, swig). (various references)

Bulgarian 

събирам (accumulate, add, add together, add up, aggregate, amass, assemble, bring together, call forth, call together, club, collect, compile, congregate, cumulate, drum up, embody, enlist, foot, furl, garner, gather, get together, harvest, lump, lump together, mass, muster, muster up, pin down, pull together, punch, raise, rake, rake together, rake up, rally, reassemble, reunite, round up, run up, scare up, sum, sum up, total, totalize, whip in), сграбчвам (catch hold of, clutch, grab, grapple, grasp, hog, lay hold of, nab, nip, seize, snatch), спускам се (decline, drop, fall, fling, flow, get down, haul down, lour, lower, pitch, shoot, shut down, shut in, sink, step down, take downhill), връхлитане, връхлитам (hawk, overtake, rush, souse), внезапно спускане, внезапно нападение (pounce, raid), нападам ненадейно, замах (dash, panache, snap, swing, swish, verve), пикиране (dive, nose dive), пикирам (dive, nose dive, souse). (various references)

Czech

střemhlavý let, snést se (alight, drift to the ground, pounce, settle down), unést (abduct, bear, kidnap, ravish, run away, snatch, spirit away), uchvácení (usurpation), razie (bust, raid), přepadnout (assail, assault, mug, raid, steal, stick up, waylay). (various references)

Finnish

iskeä kyntensä johonkin (pounce upon, swoop upon). (various references)

French

rafle, plonger, plongée, piquer (swipe), fondre sur, faire une descente, descente en piqué, descendre en piqué, avaler (swallow), attaque en piqué. (various references)

German

schnappen (catch, cope, grab, lift, nab, Nick, pick up, snap, snatch up, spring up, whip up). (various references)

Greek 

εφορμώ (charge, pounce). (various references)

Hebrew 

לעוט (dart, pounce, rebuke), לחטוף (grab, seize, snatch, whip, wrest), עיט�" (charge, rush), חטיפ�" (abduction, kidnapping, snap, snatching), ז� וק (dart, dash, jump, leap, pounce, sortie, spring, start, take off), �"שתערות (assailing, attacking, storming). (various references)

Hungarian

lecsapás (pounce, precipitation, smash), váratlan megrohanás, hirtelen megrohanás. (various references)

Indonesian

sambaran (stroke). (various references)

Italian

piombare dall'alto, piombare (fall, Plumb, rush), picchiata (beating, blow, dive, diving, knocking, nosedive), librarsi (hover, soar), incursione (foray, incursion, inroad, raid), avventarsi (fling, hurl, pounce). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

急降下 (nose dive). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きゅう�"うか (nose dive). (various references)

Manx

rooar, cur rooar neose er. (various references)

Pig Latin

oopsway

Portuguese

atacar violentemente, arrebatar (carry away, claw, enrage, enrapture, entrance, force, grab, overjoy, ravish, snatch, take, thrill, transport), apanhar (bag, capture, catch, cop, gather, get a beating, grab, grapple, nab, pick, pick off, pick up, reach for, rustle, seize, shovel, snatch, strike, take, take a beating, take up). (various references)

Romanian

se repezi asupra cuiva (swoop down upon smb.), se repezi (burst into, dart, fling, flounce, fly at, hurl oneself, make a dash at smth., make for, plough into, rush, start, swoop upon), se nãpusti asupra (bear down on, bear down upon, dash against, fall over, hurl oneself at, jump upon, pounce at, swoop upon). (various references)

Russian 

внезапное нападение (incursion), обмениваться (bandy, reciprocate, swap, swop), обменивать (barter, change, interchange, swap, swop, truck). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nasrnuti (attack, fall on, mob, set on, turn on), nalet (attack, burst, dash, flurry, gust, rush), kidisati, kidisanje. (various references)

Spanish

redada (haul, raid, shot, sweep), precipitarse (charge, dart, dash, plunge, precipitate, rush, scamper, shoot, sweep, tear, tear along), calarse (get soaked, squeeze in, work in), calada (drag), arremetida (dash, lunge, onrush, onset), abalanzarse (lunge). (various references)

Swedish

slå ned på (come down on), angrepp (access, aggression, assault, attack, charge, offence, offense, onfall, onset, thrust). (various references)

Thai

โฉบลงอย่างรว�"เร็ว, โจมตีอย่างรว�"เร็ว, การโฉบลงอย่างรว�"เร็ว, การโจมตีอย่างรว�"เร็ว, ฉกฉวย (seize). (various references)

Turkish

saldırmak (aggress, assail, assault, attack, charge, come at, come down on, come for, come on, come upon, descend, fall on, fly at, fly at smb., fly out at smb., go at, hit at, invade, jump on, lam into, lash into, lash out, lay about, let smb. have it, level off, level out, light into, lunge, make a dash, make a dead-set at, offend, pounce, press home, ride atilt at smb., round on, run at, run atilt at smb., rush, sally out, set up, storm, sweep down on, swoop down, swoop on, thrust, turn on, turn upon, wade in, wade into, walk into), saldırma (attacking, encroachment, lunge, onrush, onslaught, on-slaught, rush), baskın yapmak (bob up, catch, descend, forage, raid, swoop down, swoop on, take by surprise), baskın (descent, dominant, forage, foray, heavy, incursion, inroad, irruption, overpowering, predominant, preponderant, prepotent, raid, sudden attack, surprise), üstüne çullanmak (swoop down, swoop on), üstüne çullanma. (various references)

Ukrainian

раптовий напад, хапати (click, grab, grabble, grasp, seize, sick, snap, snatch, tackle, take), кидатися вниз, налітати (bump), падання вниз. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự s� xuống sự cướp đi, cuộc đột kích sự nh� o xuống. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "swoop": swooped, swooper, swoopers, swooping, swoops, swoopstake. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Swoop" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dwop, shwoo, shwooh, shwooo, skopo, swhoop, Swo, swoo, swook, swoom, swoopy, swoot, swu, swup, woop. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: woops.

-1 letter: oops, pows, swop, woos, wops.

-2 letters: ops, pow, sop, sow, woo, wop, wos.

-3 letters: op, os, ow, so, wo.

+1 letter: swoops, whoops.

+2 letters: bowpots, powwows, sapwood, swooped, swooper, woopsed, woopses.

+3 letters: cowflops, cowplops, cowpokes, cowpoxes, plowboys, plywoods, postshow, sapwoods, shopworn, slopwork, slowpoke, snowdrop, snowplow, soapwort, swoopers, swooping, topworks, towropes, whoopees, whoopers, whooplas, woopsing, workshop.

+4 letters: downpours, downslope, downspout, dropworts, followups, fowlpoxes, openworks, outpowers, pinewoods, polliwogs, pollywogs, porkwoods, pulpwoods, slopworks, slowpokes, snowdrops, snowplows, soapworts, woodpiles, woolpacks, workshops.