1.  swoop(n = noun.communication) slide - (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale; "the violinist was indulgent with his swoops and slides"
is a kind of glissando
Derived form verb swoop₂

2.  swoop(n = noun.act) - a very rapid raid;
is a kind of foray, maraud, raid
Derived form verb swoop₃

3.  swoop(n = noun.act) - a swift descent through the air;
is a kind of descent
Derived form verb swoop₁

1.  swoop(v = verb.motion) pounce - move down on as if in an attack; "The raptor swooped down on its prey"; "The teacher swooped down upon the new students"
is one way to come down, descend, fall, go down
Derived form noun swoop₃
Sample sentences: Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP

2.  swoop(v = verb.motion) - move with a sweep, or in a swooping arc;
is one way to move
Derived form noun swoop₁
Sample sentences: Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP

3.  swoop(v = verb.contact) swoop up - seize or catch with a swooping motion;
is one way to snap, snatch, snatch up
Derived form noun swoop₂
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

1.  To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing; as, a hawk swoops a chicken. [1913 Webster]

2.  To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep. [1913 Webster]
"And now at last you came to swoop it all." [1913 Webster]
"The grazing ox which swoops it [the medicinal herb] in with the common grass." [1913 Webster]

1.  To descend with closed wings from a height upon prey, as a hawk; to stoop. [1913 Webster]

2.  To pass with pomp; to sweep. Drayton. [1913 Webster]

   A falling on and seizing, as the prey of a rapacious bird; the act of swooping. [1913 Webster]
"The eagle fell, . . . and carried away a whole litter of cubs at a swoop." [1913 Webster]

swoop, v. & n.
--v.
1 intr. (often foll. by down) descend rapidly like a bird of prey.
2 intr. (often foll. by on) make a sudden attack from a distance.
3 tr. (often foll. by up) colloq. snatch the whole of at one swoop.
--n. a swooping or snatching movement or action.

Idiom:
at (or in) one fell swoop see FELL(4).

Etymology:
perh. dial. var. of obs. swope f. OE swapan: see SWEEP

N  taking, reception, deglutition, appropriation, prehension, prensation, capture, caption, apprehension, deprehension, abreption, seizure, expropriation, abduction, ablation, subtraction, withdrawal, abstraction, ademption, adrolepsy, dispossession, deprivation, deprivement, bereavement, divestment, disherison, distraint, distress, sequestration, confiscation, eviction, rapacity, rapaciousness, extortion, vampirism, theft, resumption, reprise, reprisal, recovery, clutch, swoop, wrench, grip, haul, take, catch, scramble, taker, captor, subduction, taking, privative, prehensile, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, lupine, rapacious, raptorial, ravenous, parasitic, bereft, at one fell swoop, give an inch and take an ell.

VB  descend, go down, drop down, come down, fall, gravitate, drop, slip, slide, rappel, settle, plunge, plummet, crash, decline, set, sink, droop, come down a peg, slump, dismount, alight, light, get down, swoop, stoop, fall prostrate, precipitate oneself, let fall, tumble, trip, stumble, titubate, lurch, pitch, swag, topple, topple over, tumble over, topple down, tumble down, tilt, sprawl, plump down, come down a cropper.

swoop down upon, swoop up