I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bird swoops down (= it suddenly flies down )
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The bird swoops down on its prey.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
down
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As soon as the adventurers stop moving, the Harpies will swoop down from their roosts in the rock.
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Garnett comes swooping down from somewhere out of the West Maui Mountains to reject the shot.
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It harasses other gulls until they drop their hard-won food and then swoops down to catch it - often in mid-air.
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Nevertheless, Ellen swooped down and removed it, and Otis began screaming at her, as she expected him to.
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Then he swooped down and landed on a road near Varadero Beach, right in the middle of evening rush-hour traffic.
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O-U-out... goose swoops down and plucks you out.
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Then having a blooming great saint swooping down .
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Manshin Alijima swooped down and plucked back half of the coins.
in
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And flying tonight ... the Falcons swoop in for a new season.
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They just swooped in and grabbed everything.
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Three planes swooped in , fast and low.
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Nevertheless, eight MIGs swooped in for an attack; they were successfully repelled.
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Natural predators, sparrowhawk and kestrel, swoop in on regular raids and the garden is visited by fox and weasel.
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But venture capitalists are swooping in like vultures.
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The aircraft swooped in to land, almost touching the little buildings of Kowloon.
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Purdue swooped in and got it instead, and will sit atop the West bracket.
over
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Mildred looked up and saw Maud swooping over the gates, waving her hat in the air.
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The approach is extremely alarming to first-time passengers as the aircraft constantly swoops over ridges and precipices.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
in one fell swoop
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A single company can eliminate 74,000 jobs in one fell swoop.
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Can you imagine it, to have grown up insane and then in one fell swoop to achieve sanity?
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Compton had not been laid out, like Lakewood, in one fell swoop.
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Despite the drop-off, analysts said they were encouraged by the elimination of the securities in one fell swoop.
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I think it might solve the whole problem in one fell swoop.
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The most difficult thing afoot is to keep our problem child from blowing it in one fell swoop.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A raven swooped down from its perch in the rafters and dived at the wizard, talons open and gleaming.
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A raven flaps aimlessly across the scene, and white-throated swifts swoop past in violent arcs.
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As soon as the adventurers stop moving, the Harpies will swoop down from their roosts in the rock.
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It harasses other gulls until they drop their hard-won food and then swoops down to catch it - often in mid-air.
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Purdue swooped in and got it instead, and will sit atop the West bracket.
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Rather, the carrier frequency swoops up or down about an octave.
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This moment seemed to have swooped down on him from nowhere.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
fell
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I think it might solve the whole problem in one fell swoop .
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In one fell swoop , the authors have denied the deeply traumatizing consequences of extreme verbal and emotional abuse.
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Can you imagine it, to have grown up insane and then in one fell swoop to achieve sanity?
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Despite the drop-off, analysts said they were encouraged by the elimination of the securities in one fell swoop .
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Compton had not been laid out, like Lakewood, in one fell swoop .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Despite the drop-off, analysts said they were encouraged by the elimination of the securities in one fell swoop .
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Early morning swoop ... police raid a house in Kirkdale today.
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In one swoop the feeling swallowed her up and she had never got rid of it since.
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She also referred to the police swoops on illegal sites that are regularly organised by the local authorities.
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The invisible flutter and swoop of black creatures, still furious with the woman who had once banished them.