swooping
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -uːpɪŋ
Verb[edit]
swooping
- present participle and gerund of swoop
Noun[edit]
swooping (plural swoopings)
- The motion of something that swoops.
- 2007, Annie Finch, On Her Poems and Her Life as a Poet:
- 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.
Derived terms[edit]
Adjective[edit]
swooping
- That swoops or swoop.
- 1988, Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, William Heinemann Ltd, page 142:
- With a huge rush of wind a swooping eagle dropped from out of the night sky.