swoop

Definition

  • verb: to fly down through the air suddenly
  • verb: to move with a sweep
  • often used with 'fell'
  • synonyms: seize, stoop, sweep

Examples

  • The court has dismissed all of the charges against him 'in one fell swoop'.

  • A hawk 'swooped down' and caught a rabbit in the field.

  • The police 'swooped' in and captured the criminals.

Movie quotes

  • (..) Wife, children, servants, all that could be found. MACDUFF: He has no children! All my pretty chickens and their dam, in one fell swoop? Dispute it like a man. Oh... Oh, I will do so. But I will also feel it as a man. Sinful Macduff! (..)
    2015 Macbeth