intransitive verb. To move in a sudden sweep.

intransitive verb. To make a rush or an attack with a sudden sweeping movement. Often used with down.

intransitive verb. To seize or snatch in a sudden sweeping movement.

noun. The act or an instance of swooping.

To move along with a rush; sweep; pass with pomp.

To descend upon, or as if upon, prey suddenly from a height, as a hawk; stoop.

To fall on at once and seize; dash upon and seize while on the wing: often with up: as, a hawk swoops a chicken; a kite swoops up a mouse.

To seize; catch up; take with a sweep.

noun. The sudden pouncing of a rapacious bird on its prey; a falling on and seizing, as of a bird on its prey; hence, a sudden descent, as of a body of troops; a sweeping movement.

intransitive verb. To descend with closed wings from a height upon prey, as a hawk; to stoop.

intransitive verb. To pass with pomp; to sweep.

transitive verb. To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing.

transitive verb. To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.

noun. A falling on and seizing, as the prey of a rapacious bird; the act of swooping.

verb. to fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive

verb. to move swiftly, as if with a sweeping movement, especially to attack something

noun. an instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downward

noun. an act of rushedly doing something

noun. passing quickly from one note to the next

noun. a swift descent through the air

noun. a very rapid raid

noun. (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale

verb. move down on as if in an attack

verb. seize or catch with a swooping motion

verb. move with a sweep, or in a swooping arc

"Bringing together employer and candidate in one fell swoop is pehaps a holy grail, and I’m afraid it will always be so – after all we are talking about people and personalities and god knows they clash much too often."

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descent  foray  glissando  maraud  move  

Guadeloupe  Hoop  Loop  Shoop  coop  

dip  flick  flutter  heave  jab  

belly buster  belly flop  belly whopper  blow  cannonball  

swooped  swoopes  swooping  swoops