Crossword-Solution: SWOOP 5 letters, 110 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Swoop	n.	To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing; as, a hawk swoops a chicken.
Swoop	n.	To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
Swoop	v. i.	To descend with closed wings from a height upon prey, as a hawk; to swoop.
Swoop	v. i.	To pass with pomp; to sweep.
Swoop	n.	A falling on and seizing, as the prey of a rapacious bird; the act of swooping.

We have 110 clues for the answer “SWOOP”

Clue	Answers
"One fell ___.”	1 answer
At one fell ___	1 answer
Batlike maneuver.	1 answer
Behave like a hawk	1 answer
Bird of prey's dip	1 answer
Come down in a hurry	1 answer
Come down, as an eagle	1 answer
Descend dramatically	1 answer
Descend suddenly, like a bird of prey	1 answer
Descend like an eagle	1 answer
Descend suddenly	1 answer
Dive bomber's descent	1 answer
Dive dramatically	1 answer
Dive like a bird	1 answer
Dive like a loon	1 answer
Dive like an eagle	1 answer
Dive like an owl	1 answer
Dive quickly, as an eagle	1 answer
Dive through the air	1 answer
Dive to catch a fish, maybe	1 answer
Diving action	1 answer
Downward arc	1 answer
Downward pounce.	1 answer
Dramatic descent	1 answer
Drop like a roc?	1 answer
Eagle's attack	1 answer
Eagle's descent	1 answer
Eagle's maneuver	1 answer
Eagle's sudden move	1 answer
Eagle's tactic	1 answer
Emulate a hawk e.g.	1 answer
Falcon's attack	1 answer
Fly in for the kill, say	1 answer
Fly like a bat	1 answer
Fly like an eagle, maybe	1 answer
Hawk's descent	1 answer
Hawk's maneuver	1 answer
Hawk's move	1 answer
Hawk's pounce.	1 answer
Hawk's sudden move	1 answer
In one fell __	1 answer
Kestrel's Dive	1 answer
MAKE sudden attack	1 answer
Make an air strike?	1 answer
Move like a hawk	1 answer
Move rapidly downwards	1 answer
Move right (in)	1 answer
Nose dive(5)	1 answer
Part of an eagle's flight	1 answer
Plunge like a hawk	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

AREET

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with SWOOP (5)

But Polyneices, a dishonored corse, (So by report the royal edict runs) No man may bury him or make lament— Must leave him tombless and unwept, a feast For kites to scent afar and swoop upon.

The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000

Then Tom took the hellum, and started for that yahoo, and we come a-whizzing down and made a swoop, and knocked him out of the saddle, child and all; and he was jarred considerable, but the child wasn’t hurt, but laid there working its hands and legs in the air like a tumble-bug that’s on its back and can’t turn over.

Tom Sawyer Abroad Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

And the steep swoop of highroad lay, in its cool morning dust, splendid with patterns of sunshine and shadow, perfectly still.

Sons and Lovers David Herbert Lawrence 1995

Then the winter fell with a sudden swoop, and the heavy clouds sagged low, And earth and sky were blotted out in a whirl of driving snow.

Ballads of a Cheechako Robert W. Service 2008

Among the flashing waves are two white birds Which swoop, and soar, and scream for very joy At the wild sport.

A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass Amy Lowell 2008

Quotes with SWOOP (3)

A lifetime spent in the study of the history of societies since the dawn of mankind presumably inclined him to skepticism and misgivings in regard to any great scheme, religious or political, that set out to create universal happiness in one fell swoop; what it was more likely to create, in his opinion, was universal misery; and his faith in heaven-sent saviors was hardly greater.

Francois Maspero Cat's Grin

Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee; as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than…

Herman Melville Moby-Dick or, The Whale

Blood had long since ceased to beat from one end to the other, but one could sense, from passages marked with fresher traces of wheels and hooves, that once the meaning and even the very idea of a long journey was lost, sleep had not descended over it in one fell swoop: it had continued to steal a march here and there, in a discontinuous way, and over short distances, like a laborer who feels his cart jolt on a section of Roman road that crosses his field...

Julien Gracq

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 104 times in crossword archives (1944–2025).