swoop

verb

/swuːp/

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they swoop	/swuːp/ /swuːp/
he / she / it swoops	/swuːps/ /swuːps/
past simple swooped	/swuːpt/ /swuːpt/
past participle swooped	/swuːpt/ /swuːpt/
-ing form swooping	/ˈswuːpɪŋ/ /ˈswuːpɪŋ/

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[intransitive] (+ adv./prep.) (of a bird or plane鸟或飞机) to fly quickly and suddenly downwards, especially in order to attack somebody/something飞扑，猛扑synonym dive
- The aircraft swooped down over the buildings.飞机俯冲到那些建筑物上方。
- A hawk swooped low over the field.一只鹰在田野上空低空盘旋。
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adverb
- low
- suddenly
- down
- …
preposition
- into
- on
- over
- …
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[intransitive] swoop (on somebody/something) (especially of police or soldiers尤指警察或士兵) to visit or attack somebody/something suddenly and without warning迅速行动，突然袭击
- Officers swooped on the vehicles as they left the ferry.当车辆离开渡船时，警察向他们猛扑过去。
- Customs officers swooped on several houses last night looking for drugs.海关人员昨晚突击检查了几所房子，搜查毒品。
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adverb
- low
- suddenly
- down
- …
preposition
- into
- on
- over
- …
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Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘sweep along in a stately manner’): perhaps a dialect variant of Old English swāpan, of Germanic origin. The early sense of the noun was ‘a blow, stroke’.

swoop

noun

/swuːp/

Idioms

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an act of moving suddenly and quickly downwards through the air, as a bird does（鸟等的）向下猛冲，俯冲 synonym dive
swoop (on something/somebody) an act of arriving somewhere or attacking something/somebody in a way that is sudden and unexpected突然袭击；突击搜查；突然行动 synonym raid
- Large quantities of drugs were found during a police swoop on the star's New York home.警方对这个明星在纽约的住所进行突击搜查，发现了大量毒品。

Idioms

at/in one fell swoop

all at the same time; in a single action, especially a sudden or violent one一下子；一举
- If the new law is passed, it will remove press freedom in one fell swoop.如果新法律获得通过，它将一下子取消新闻自由。