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swooping en · VERB · etymology 1

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *swaipaną Proto-West Germanic *swaipan Old English swāpan Middle English swopen English swoop Proto-Indo-European *-onts Proto-Germanic *-ndz Proto-West Germanic *-andī Old English -ende Middle English -ynge English -ing English swooping From swoop + -ing.

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of swoop
   form of swoop

swooping en · ADJ · etymology 2

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *swaipaną Proto-West Germanic *swaipan Old English swāpan Middle English swopen English swoop Proto-Germanic *-ungō Old English -ung Middle English -ynge English -ing English swooping From swoop + -ing.

Meanings

1. That swoops or swoop.
   • With a huge rush of wind a swooping eagle dropped from out of the night sky. 1988, Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, William Heinemann Ltd, page 142:

swooping en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *swaipaną Proto-West Germanic *swaipan Old English swāpan Middle English swopen English swoop Proto-Germanic *-ungō Old English -ung Middle English -ynge English -ing English swooping From swoop + -ing.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The motion of something that swoops.
   • 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. 2007, Annie Finch, On Her Poems and Her Life as a Poet:
2. (countable, uncountable) A high-speed landing technique in skydiving.

Forms

Deriveds

swooping season