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Qué (quién) es swoop down - definición
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Swoop (mascot); Swooping; Swoop (band); Swooping (disambiguation); Swoop (disambiguation)
swoop down
v. (D; intr.) to swoop down on (the hawk swooped down on the sheep)
swoop
(swoops, swooping, swooped)
1.
If police or soldiers swoop on a place, they go there suddenly and quickly, usually in order to arrest someone or to attack the place. (JOURNALISM)
The terror ended when armed police swooped on the car...
The drugs squad swooped and discovered 240 kilograms of cannabis.
VERB: V on n, V
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Swoop is also a noun.
Police held 10 suspected illegal immigrants after a swoop on a German lorry.
N-COUNT
2.
When a bird or aeroplane swoops, it suddenly moves downwards through the air in a smooth curving movement.
More than 20 helicopters began swooping in low over the ocean...
The hawk swooped and soared away carrying something.
VERB: V adv/prep, V
3.
If something is done in one fell swoop or at one fell swoop, it is done on a single occasion or by a single action.
In one fell swoop the bank wiped away the tentative benefits of this policy.
PHRASE: PHR with cl
swoop
¦ verb
1. (especially of a bird) move rapidly downwards through the air.
carry out a sudden raid.
2. informal seize with a sweeping motion.
¦ noun an act of swooping.
Phrases
at (or in) one fell swoop see fell4.
Origin
C16 (in the sense 'sweep along in a stately manner'): perh. a dialect var. of OE swapan (see sweep).
Ejemplos de uso de swoop down
1. Haven‘t noticed them being able to swoop down like Superman to fix the problem at the time.
2. If the government does not respect these demands, the second step will be general civil disobedience in Baghdad and the Iraqi provinces.» Security Forces Swoop Down British military officials said Prime Minister Nuri Al–Maliki was in Basra to personally oversee major security forces swoop down in Iraq’s second largest city, but that British troops were not taking part.
3. Steadily the numbers increase, then suddenly the sky seems to turn emerald as thousands swoop down, cawing and cackling, to cluster, jostling, in the tall trees.
4. Convoys of federal police –– most wearing face masks to protect their identities –– ply the streets of Culiacan, and military helicopters regularly swoop down over the city.
5. The spacecraft is designed to swoop down on the asteroid on two separate occasions and gather samples before returning to Earth.