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MEANING OF SWOOPING IN ENGLISH

swooping
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present participle of swoop

swoop
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/swuːp/
to move very quickly and easily through the air, especially down from a high
position in order to attack:
The eagle swooped down to snatch a young rabbit.
informal
to make a sudden attack on a place or group of people in order to surround and
catch them:
Undercover police swooped on three houses in the city at 5.00 this morning.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Movement through the air
 * airborne
 * buoyantly
 * buzz
 * flight
 * flighted
 * fly
 * glide
 * hang time
 * hover
 * levitate
 * lift
 * skim
 * smoothness
 * soar
 * soaring
 * stunt
 * swish
 * swishy
 * swoop
 * wheel

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Moving quickly
Attacking & invading
(Definition of swooping from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary &
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EXAMPLES OF SWOOPING

swooping

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as
adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The two men were singing, swooping, undulating, unintelligible words, and the
back of my neck tingled.
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As a counterexample they suggest the perception of a bird swooping down to land
and its identification.
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However, by 1950 a poster from the same location carries an image of a
single-child family swooping down towards an eerily empty and well-ordered
beach.
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Her adroit interpretation of the solo part, swooping around to realize the
score's frequent exploration of keyboard extremes, was a visual as well as an
aural delight.
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They are swooping and preying on those unfortunate enough to be unemployed.
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They could not be altered in evidence without the defence swooping on it.
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Natural facilities are used for sport and recreation, hang-gliding, caving and
walking—as long as one is careful to avoid hang-gliders swooping down and
catching one behind the neck.
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I cannot think of anyone more likely to be attracted by a qualitative leap than
he is with his swooping intellect and his liking for the metaphysic of history.
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It is claimed by some that swooping can be prevented by hand-feeding magpies.
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In some cases, magpies may become extremely aggressive and attack people's
faces; it may become very difficult to deter these birds from swooping.
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It hunts from a perch about 3 metres (10 ft) high swooping to the ground for
prey up to ten times a minute.
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Red aliens quickly begin attacking you, swooping in line formations from the top
area of the screen.
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Eight other calls have been described, from "begging calls" made by females
during mating to "attack calls" made while swooping at intruders.
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Dusk brings hundreds of swooping swallows to the cave entrance.
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Their habit of swooping to pick up dead rodents or other roadkill leads to
collisions with vehicles.
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/ˈʃrɪv.əl/

to become dry, smaller, and covered with lines as if by crushing or folding, or
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