Swoop is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SWOOP in dictionary:

VERB:
• to make a sudden descent
• (especially of a bird) move rapidly downwards through the air
• carry out a sudden attack, especially in order to make a capture or arrest
• seize with a sweeping motion
• sweep down or pounce on suddenly
• To descend with closed wings from a height upon prey, as a hawk; to swoop.
• To pass with pomp; to sweep.
• move down on as if in an attack
• move with a sweep, or in a swooping arc
• seize or catch with a swooping motion
NOUN:
• a swooping or snatching movement or action
• 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.
• A falling on and seizing, as the prey of a rapacious bird; the act of swooping.
• (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale
• a very rapid raid
• a swift descent through the air
• swooping

Words related to SWOOP

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Words that contain SWOOP

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How to use SWOOP in a sentence

• At one swoop More than a thousand fell by his own hand.
• Now it would swoop toward Jimsy and then would dart, only to return.
• Quickly, with a sudden swoop, he seizes a single fish from an unsuspecting shoal, and announces his success by the peculiar sound of his rattle.
• The thing was to swoop into the camp before the Maoris could have any warning, or attempt to resist.
• I inserted the toe, gathered myself, and with one smooth swoop swung myself across and grabbed that tiny pine! Fisher now worked his way out and crossed in the same manner.
• We watched him until the increasing speed of his swoop turned us a little dizzy, and we drew back.
• McGrath received him with a graceful swoop of his landing-net and secured him.
• Then there was a long sickening swoop through utter blackness.
• For weeks its broad wings hovered above our troops, and then with fell swoop it descended.
• He let the machine swoop on down to five hundred feet, and up again.
• If she fancies a young man, she bears down upon him, and with one fell swoop carries him off.
• Like a snarling pack of wolves, the Mexicans had withdrawn and suddenly made a swoop on them all at once.
• I have no memory of climbing, but I do recall landing on the other side in a swoop.
• There he hoped to brush aside the squadron keeping guard over the French transports, embark the powerful French force assembled there, and swoop down on the English coast.
• Its movement, as it swung in toward the startled woman, seemed like the swoop of a hawk.
• He rose straight towards it, won above it by virtue of the impetus of his swoop and by the advantage and weight of a man.
• At first they seemed begging for a share, but she repulsed them with angry gestures, when one of them made a sudden swoop, and possessed himself of a handful.
• I caught him just where I wanted him, and he did his last swoop, I guess.
• All the birds of heaven will descend, with them will come the eagle, Heedless and hurrying on the flesh he will swoop, Thinking of that which is hidden inside.
• The swoop and lift of the sheer, the rich and audacious colours, the strange flags and foreign names.
• Suddenly, like the swoop of a hawk on its prey, Agias saw the right hand of Septimius tear his short sword from its sheath.
• And on the way a fox chased her and a big hawk tried to swoop down, and grab her, but she managed to get away.

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