swooping

English

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -uːpɪŋ

Verb

swooping

  1. present participle and gerund of swoop

Noun

swooping (plural swoopings)

  1. 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

Adjective

swooping

  1. That swoops or swoop.
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