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Whoosh!
Answer for the clue "Whoosh! ", 4 letters:
zoom
Alternative clues for the word zoom
Word definitions for zoom in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1886, of echoic origin. Gained popularity c.1917 as aviators began to use it. As a noun from 1917. The photographer's zoom lens is from 1936, from the specific aviation sense of zoom as "to quickly move closer."
Usage examples of zoom.
I zoomed up to Safeway and got some Acetaminophen suppositories, to lower the temperature.
Bolex R32 digital recorder and BTL meters and lenses, including a bitching Angenieux zoom O.
Harry called to Coote as he zoomed past, but Coote, grinning broadly, chose to aim the next Bludger at Harper instead, who was just passing Harry in the opposite direction.
They seemed to have woken up now, and as his team scored their fourth goal, still holding the English team to one-hundred, Harry was somewhat shocked to feel a jolt as a Bludger collided with his broom twigs, making him fly crazily for a moment until he grasped the handle with determination and zoomed straight up, to shake the wobbles out of it.
Some were zooming towards the cuttles, but others were homing in on the curios crowding the aft.
Air shuttles full of visitors zoomed this way and that, dodging herds of winged lizards and flocks of blue-winged gibbit birds.
A frame zoomed on one of the attitude jets, a gauzy glittering net molded magnetically into a hyperboloid of rotation with a line of white fire running down the axis.
Wally peered through the zoom, it all rushed back as if he were looking at a kinescope through a time warp.
As Wally peered through the zoom, it all rushed back as if he were looking at a kinescope through a time warp.
As they zoomed back toward Omicron, though, Fortier announced several more small ships coming up to intercept them.
Nieh zoomed toward him, cutting off another fellow with a pedicab whom he might also have been calling.
Don wondered if any of his neighbors were watching them through their windows, or zooming in on them with their security cameras: the robot and the rollback, two miracles of modern science, marching along, side by side.
With me at the wheel, Josie Mankiewicz, Jane Fonda, and Jill Senary spent the better part of July and August zooming around Los Angeles on the trail of Marion Brando.
Toby had zoomed in on the bookcase immediately, but he was able to carry on a small-talk conversation with Sooly while reading.
A tree diagram begins to grow from the bottom left corner of the wall, recurving and recomplicating as it climbs toward the top right, zooming and fracturing into taxonomic fault lines.