Meaning & use
Swoop
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To move rapidly downward through the air, typically in order to attack or catch something.
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The hawk swooped down and snatched the mouse from the field.
Police swooped on the warehouse at dawn, arresting several suspects.
A note on using this word
The idiom "in one fell swoop," meaning all at once, comes from Shakespeare's Macbeth, where it described a hawk's sudden attack.
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