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Definition of swoop in English: swoopverb swuːpswup 1no object, with adverbial of direction (especially of a bird) move rapidly downwards through the air. （尤指鸟）猛扑，俯冲 the barn owl can swoop down on a mouse in total darkness 仓鸮在漆黑的夜里能对准老鼠猛扑下来。 the aircraft swooped in to land 飞机向下俯冲降落。 Example sentencesExamples - Green palms and tree canopies and a cobalt blue sea spread out before us, making us feel more like birds swooping in on a coastal breeze than landlocked tourists.
- The birds would swoop into the cold water then reach their heads back up to the fishermen.
- With that said, the silver and jet black bird swoops down off the branch and heads off to his home.
- I gasped in horror as a immense bird swooped over us.
- Now that most of the old undergrowth has been removed the birds are swooping to get all the insects and worms I've disturbed as well as enjoying the occasional dust bath.
- When birds swoop around en masse, how do they decide who does the steering?
- Tobias jumped backwards only when the bird swooped in his direction.
- Instead the council proposed to put wires on ledges to prevent the birds swooping in to roost.
- The birds will swoop in front of cars to feed on the insects attracted by the headlights.
- The sight is dramatic as the bird swoops on its prey and lifts it clear of the water in its claws.
- In late summer and early fall, flocks of tiny finches and other seed-eating birds swoop in to graze among the spent blooms.
- A fresh winter wind whips past and the occasional bird swoops through a brilliant blue sky.
- Some birds swooped down swiftly to their selected spot while others hopped up and down as if they were arguing with one another about where they were going to sit.
- A few black birds swooped into the air, almost in unison, then dived down again as if doing some sort of dance.
- A pleasure boat glides silently over the surface of Loch Tay, as birds swoop to skim the water.
- Birds swoop below as I peer through the vertical grid.
- The small bird swooped down and landed by the girls hand.
- There were a lot of crickets and birds swooping around from tree to tree, beginning to spook me out.
- The bird swooped down and settled itself upon the pinnacle of the flagpole, its grey-and-white feathers tinged silver in the dusky light.
- The other day, I was driving around in the countryside and I saw these beautiful birds of prey swooping about.
Synonyms dive, descend, sweep, pounce, drop, plummet, plunge, pitch, nosedive rush, dart, speed, zoom - 1.1 Carry out a sudden attack, especially in order to make a capture or arrest.
（尤指为了抓捕而）突袭 armed police swooped on a flat after a tip-off 武装警察在得到密报之后突袭了一所公寓。 Example sentencesExamples - Officers investigating the attack swooped on a house in Farnworth on Wednesday afternoon.
- Acting on tip-off from members of the public, officers with sniffer dogs accompanied by members from the local police station swooped on some houses in the area.
- Police - using a drug-detecting sniffer dog - swooped on suspect passengers boarding and alighting from trains.
- The 19-year-old was arrested early today when police swooped on a house in the town.
- Earlier six men were arrested - five after armed police swooped on an address in north London at dawn and the sixth in Liverpool as part of the same operation.
- A 22-year-old man has been arrested after police swooped on the four-bedroom home in Woodward Heights, Grays.
- Armed police officers swooped on the village and Jones was arrested.
- Ten people were arrested after police swooped on a dozen addresses in south Manchester.
- Last Thursday, Gardaí swooped on the home of six men and arrested them for public order offences.
- Just before dawn, 200 police officers swooped on six homes and seized documents.
- A landlady was arrested when police swooped on a pub on the outskirts of Bolton town centre.
- A police patrol car swooped on the van near to junction 17 of the M4 and discovered a huge stash of equipment inside the vehicle.
- Armed police officers swooped on a house in York this afternoon after worried residents reported seeing a man with a gun.
- This morning's events followed three arrests after police swooped on homes across the district in a series of raids yesterday.
- Four men were arrested under the anti-terrorism Act after police swooped on a residential street in Southampton early today.
- Five people were arrested today when police swooped on a house on a York estate as part of a clampdown on crime in the area.
- Twenty-one workers from eight different countries were arrested after immigration officers swooped on a pizza factory.
- A Police team swooped on a coach carrying 35 workers following a tip-off that suspected illegal immigrants were working for a company in York.
- Homes in Englefield Green, Sunbury, Shepperton and Addlestone were raided at the weekend as police officers swooped on suspected paedophiles in the area.
- We passed our damning evidence to the police, who swooped on the companies' premises and arrested the masterminds behind the bogus operation.
Synonyms raid, search pounce, make a raid attack, assault, assail, charge North American informal bust
2informal with object Seize with a swooping motion. 〈非正式〉猛地抓起；攫取 she swooped up the hen in her arms 她猛地抓起那只母鸡夹在腋下。 Example sentencesExamples - A moment later he was back to his effervescent self, swooping Rob's hot dog up off the grill and into a bun in one fluid movement.
- Without one glance at her, he swooped up his bag and books, and stormed out the door.
- At one point Baldwin swooped one woman off her feet in a scene that was reminiscent of an old World War II movie reel celebrating the war's end.
- Melody's work at untying herself was interrupted by Christine bursting into the room, and swooping her into a huge hug.
- I dropped my phone and ran over to her swooping her up just as she was about to grab onto the blade of the knife.
noun swuːpswup A swooping or snatching movement or action. 飞扑；攫取；突袭 four members were arrested following a swoop by detectives on their homes 四名成员在侦探的一次突袭行动中在家中被捕。 Example sentencesExamples - Immigration officials arrested five men in connection with passport fraud following a dawn swoop on a house in Billericay, it was revealed today.
- Police and Customs and Excise officers seized £5m worth of suspected drugs following a joint swoop near Brogborough.
- One of the raids today involved a swoop on a flat above a kebab shop in Upper Brook Street.
- The Garda National Drugs Unit has largely dismantled the Irish end of a massive international cannabis and cocaine network following three separate swoops.
- The swoop on gangland counterfeiters followed a pre-Euro 2004 intelligence operation.
- Morrisons shareholders will decide whether to approve the £3 billion swoop for rival Safeway at an extraordinary general meeting next month.
- Instead, Richard strode forward and with a single swoop of his open hand dealt Marco the heaviest blow he had ever felt.
- Detectives said the blue or green Rover 600 was probably left in the town following the swoop on a guard delivering cash to the HSBC in Morrisons, on Tuesday afternoon.
- Wanderers hope their pioneering swoop for Japanese striker Akinori Nishizawa will prove a smart move both on and off the field.
- But he ruled out a swoop for even more shares in the company, saying ‘We have no plans to further increase the level of this investment.’
- There is still scope to sign players on frees, though, and Hughes is open to the idea of making a swoop for someone like Cole, providing it's financially viable.
- Shutt has been scouting for fresh talent to add to the squad following his triple swoop last week.
- A spokesman said the company worked closely with the Immigration Service, knew the swoop was planned and would not face further action or prosecution.
- He has contacts within the flashy high-speed world of Formula One and some of the men involved in his financial swoop for City are believed to be from the Grand Prix circuit.
- The drugs were seized following a swoop on a house in Cahernorry, Ballysimon on Tuesday night.
- Every statement was accommodated with a graceful swoop of her arms or an articulated movement of her hands, like a sort of exotic dance.
- Following the dramatic swoop, eight men were sentenced to life imprisonment, to be released between 22 and 27 years later.
- Bryan Robson is trying to make a deadline-day swoop for Manchester United starlet Chris Eagles.
- She shut them for a moment and immediately felt the world drop out from under her in a sickening swoop of her stomach.
- The only movement was the flapping of a hawk or the swoop of a diving osprey, the only sound the gentle lapping of water on the shore.
Synonyms raid, surprise search attack, assault North American informal bust, takedown
OriginMid 16th century (in the sense 'sweep along in a stately manner'): perhaps a dialect variant of Old English swāpan (see sweep). The early sense of the noun was 'a blow, stroke'. Rhymesbloop, cock-a-hoop, coop, croup, droop, drupe, dupe, goop, group, Guadeloupe, hoop, loop, poop, recoup, roup, scoop, sloop, snoop, soup, stoep, stoop, stoup, stupe, troop, troupe, whoop Definition of swoop in US English: swoopverbswo͞opswup 1no object, with adverbial of direction (especially of a bird) move rapidly downwards through the air. （尤指鸟）猛扑，俯冲 the barn owl can swoop down on a mouse in total darkness 仓鸮在漆黑的夜里能对准老鼠猛扑下来。 the aircraft swooped in to land 飞机向下俯冲降落。 Example sentencesExamples - The bird swooped down and settled itself upon the pinnacle of the flagpole, its grey-and-white feathers tinged silver in the dusky light.
- A few black birds swooped into the air, almost in unison, then dived down again as if doing some sort of dance.
- The birds will swoop in front of cars to feed on the insects attracted by the headlights.
- The birds would swoop into the cold water then reach their heads back up to the fishermen.
- The small bird swooped down and landed by the girls hand.
- I gasped in horror as a immense bird swooped over us.
- When birds swoop around en masse, how do they decide who does the steering?
- A fresh winter wind whips past and the occasional bird swoops through a brilliant blue sky.
- With that said, the silver and jet black bird swoops down off the branch and heads off to his home.
- In late summer and early fall, flocks of tiny finches and other seed-eating birds swoop in to graze among the spent blooms.
- Tobias jumped backwards only when the bird swooped in his direction.
- Some birds swooped down swiftly to their selected spot while others hopped up and down as if they were arguing with one another about where they were going to sit.
- The sight is dramatic as the bird swoops on its prey and lifts it clear of the water in its claws.
- The other day, I was driving around in the countryside and I saw these beautiful birds of prey swooping about.
- Instead the council proposed to put wires on ledges to prevent the birds swooping in to roost.
- Birds swoop below as I peer through the vertical grid.
- A pleasure boat glides silently over the surface of Loch Tay, as birds swoop to skim the water.
- Green palms and tree canopies and a cobalt blue sea spread out before us, making us feel more like birds swooping in on a coastal breeze than landlocked tourists.
- There were a lot of crickets and birds swooping around from tree to tree, beginning to spook me out.
- Now that most of the old undergrowth has been removed the birds are swooping to get all the insects and worms I've disturbed as well as enjoying the occasional dust bath.
Synonyms dive, descend, sweep, pounce, drop, plummet, plunge, pitch, nosedive - 1.1 Carry out a sudden attack, especially in order to make a capture or arrest.
（尤指为了抓捕而）突袭 investigators swooped on the Graf family home Example sentencesExamples - Four men were arrested under the anti-terrorism Act after police swooped on a residential street in Southampton early today.
- Five people were arrested today when police swooped on a house on a York estate as part of a clampdown on crime in the area.
- Officers investigating the attack swooped on a house in Farnworth on Wednesday afternoon.
- A Police team swooped on a coach carrying 35 workers following a tip-off that suspected illegal immigrants were working for a company in York.
- Ten people were arrested after police swooped on a dozen addresses in south Manchester.
- Armed police officers swooped on the village and Jones was arrested.
- Police - using a drug-detecting sniffer dog - swooped on suspect passengers boarding and alighting from trains.
- Homes in Englefield Green, Sunbury, Shepperton and Addlestone were raided at the weekend as police officers swooped on suspected paedophiles in the area.
- Armed police officers swooped on a house in York this afternoon after worried residents reported seeing a man with a gun.
- We passed our damning evidence to the police, who swooped on the companies' premises and arrested the masterminds behind the bogus operation.
- A police patrol car swooped on the van near to junction 17 of the M4 and discovered a huge stash of equipment inside the vehicle.
- A landlady was arrested when police swooped on a pub on the outskirts of Bolton town centre.
- This morning's events followed three arrests after police swooped on homes across the district in a series of raids yesterday.
- Just before dawn, 200 police officers swooped on six homes and seized documents.
- Earlier six men were arrested - five after armed police swooped on an address in north London at dawn and the sixth in Liverpool as part of the same operation.
- Acting on tip-off from members of the public, officers with sniffer dogs accompanied by members from the local police station swooped on some houses in the area.
- Twenty-one workers from eight different countries were arrested after immigration officers swooped on a pizza factory.
- Last Thursday, Gardaí swooped on the home of six men and arrested them for public order offences.
- A 22-year-old man has been arrested after police swooped on the four-bedroom home in Woodward Heights, Grays.
- The 19-year-old was arrested early today when police swooped on a house in the town.
2informal with object Seize with a swooping motion. 〈非正式〉猛地抓起；攫取 she swooped up the hen in her arms 她猛地抓起那只母鸡夹在腋下。 Example sentencesExamples - At one point Baldwin swooped one woman off her feet in a scene that was reminiscent of an old World War II movie reel celebrating the war's end.
- Melody's work at untying herself was interrupted by Christine bursting into the room, and swooping her into a huge hug.
- I dropped my phone and ran over to her swooping her up just as she was about to grab onto the blade of the knife.
- A moment later he was back to his effervescent self, swooping Rob's hot dog up off the grill and into a bun in one fluid movement.
- Without one glance at her, he swooped up his bag and books, and stormed out the door.
nounswo͞opswup A swooping or snatching movement or action. 飞扑；攫取；突袭 four members were arrested following a swoop by detectives on their homes 四名成员在侦探的一次突袭行动中在家中被捕。 Example sentencesExamples - The Garda National Drugs Unit has largely dismantled the Irish end of a massive international cannabis and cocaine network following three separate swoops.
- Following the dramatic swoop, eight men were sentenced to life imprisonment, to be released between 22 and 27 years later.
- Detectives said the blue or green Rover 600 was probably left in the town following the swoop on a guard delivering cash to the HSBC in Morrisons, on Tuesday afternoon.
- She shut them for a moment and immediately felt the world drop out from under her in a sickening swoop of her stomach.
- The drugs were seized following a swoop on a house in Cahernorry, Ballysimon on Tuesday night.
- Bryan Robson is trying to make a deadline-day swoop for Manchester United starlet Chris Eagles.
- There is still scope to sign players on frees, though, and Hughes is open to the idea of making a swoop for someone like Cole, providing it's financially viable.
- Shutt has been scouting for fresh talent to add to the squad following his triple swoop last week.
- One of the raids today involved a swoop on a flat above a kebab shop in Upper Brook Street.
- Morrisons shareholders will decide whether to approve the £3 billion swoop for rival Safeway at an extraordinary general meeting next month.
- Police and Customs and Excise officers seized £5m worth of suspected drugs following a joint swoop near Brogborough.
- But he ruled out a swoop for even more shares in the company, saying ‘We have no plans to further increase the level of this investment.’
- Immigration officials arrested five men in connection with passport fraud following a dawn swoop on a house in Billericay, it was revealed today.
- Instead, Richard strode forward and with a single swoop of his open hand dealt Marco the heaviest blow he had ever felt.
- The swoop on gangland counterfeiters followed a pre-Euro 2004 intelligence operation.
- Wanderers hope their pioneering swoop for Japanese striker Akinori Nishizawa will prove a smart move both on and off the field.
- Every statement was accommodated with a graceful swoop of her arms or an articulated movement of her hands, like a sort of exotic dance.
- The only movement was the flapping of a hawk or the swoop of a diving osprey, the only sound the gentle lapping of water on the shore.
- He has contacts within the flashy high-speed world of Formula One and some of the men involved in his financial swoop for City are believed to be from the Grand Prix circuit.
- A spokesman said the company worked closely with the Immigration Service, knew the swoop was planned and would not face further action or prosecution.
OriginMid 16th century (in the sense ‘sweep along in a stately manner’): perhaps a dialect variant of Old English swāpan (see sweep). The early sense of the noun was ‘a blow, stroke’. |