Crossword clues for swooped
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Swoop \Swoop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swooped; p. pr. & vb. n. Swooping.] [OE. swopen, usually, to sweep, As. sw[=a]pan to sweep, to rush; akin to G. schweifen to rove, to ramble, to curve, OHG. sweifan to whirl, Icel. sveipa to sweep; also to AS. sw[=i]fan to move quickly. Cf. Sweep, Swift, a. & n., Swipe, Swivel.]
To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing; as, a hawk swoops a chicken.
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To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
And now at last you came to swoop it all.
--Dryden.The grazing ox which swoops it [the medicinal herb] in with the common grass.
--Glanvill.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: swoop)
Usage examples of "swooped".
Another wingmate had swooped to catch the rider, but the green dragon, his left wing crisped, his body scorched, had died of shock and phosphine poisoning.
Mnementh, his magnificent bronze, sunning himself on a ledge, swooped down at such a rate that he gouged a narrow trench in the sand of the floor with his left wingtip.
These swooped in at Keff and the girl, who took a hairpin curve in midair and looped back toward the narrow passage.
Appalled by his son's action, Ken swooped the child up in his arm, administering a sharp swat on the buttocks.
Keff said, imitating the way the silver magiman's chair swooped and turned.
Zolaika's chair swooped in on the pair, knocking them apart with a blast of force which dispelled Plenna's cloud of silence.
Flying creatures with dozens of clawed feet swooped down to worry his hair and shoulders.
One probe swooped lower to the ground and then quartered the field area.
Abruptly it dove and swooped out of sight, behind the pate of the stone head.
He swooped, tugging valiantly at her shoulder, as if he himself could support her.
Exuberantly Alessan swooped her up in his arms, achingly aware of the difference between his sister's slight body and Moreta's.
He was only too glad to follow Clostan, who met them at the Hold door and swooped Kasia up in his arms to carry her down to the infirmary.
He watched as the bronze one swooped down on the nearest fat buck in the milling herd.
Some of them were no older than she had been when Fax's army had swooped down on Ruath Hold.
T'reb on a disturbed green had swooped down on the Smithmaster Crafthall and demanded, not requested, that a craftsman give up an artifact, which had been made by commission for a powerful Lord Holder.