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Swooping

adj, noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    That swoops or swoop.

    "With a huge rush of wind a swooping eagle dropped from out of the night sky."

Noun
  1. 1
    The motion of something that swoops. countable, uncountable

    "I rarely dared to write there after dark, but once in a while, gripped by the need to type a fresh version of a certain passage, I would type by candle or kerosene lamp and be treated to their [bats'] swoopings through the room."

  2. 2
    A high-speed landing technique in skydiving. countable, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of swoop form-of, gerund, participle, present

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