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Swooped vs Swooned - What's the difference?

swooped | swooned |

As verbs the difference between swooped and swooned

is that swooped is past tense of swoop while swooned is past tense of swoon.

swooped

English

Verb

(head)
  • (swoop)

    • swoop

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb) (intransitive)
  • to fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive
    • The lone eagle swooped down into the lake, snatching its prey, a small fish.
  • to move swiftly, as if with a sweeping movement, especially to attack something
    • The dog had enthusiastically swooped down on the bone.
  • * 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
    • There was a person called Nana who ruled the nursery. Sometimes she took no notice of the playthings lying about, and sometimes, for no reason whatever, she went swooping about like a great wind and hustled them away in cupboards.
  • To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing.
    • A hawk swoops a chicken.
  • To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
  • * Dryden
    • And now at last you came to swoop it all.
  • * Glanvill
    • The grazing ox which swoops it [the medicinal herb] in with the common grass.
  • To pass with pomp; to sweep.
    • (Drayton)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downward
    • The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. – Sun Tzu
  • * 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
    • One evening, when the Boy was going to bed, he couldn't find the china dog that always slept with him. Nana was in a hurry, and it was too much trouble to hunt for china dogs at bedtime, so she simply looked about her, and seeing that the toy cupboard door stood open, she made a swoop .
  • an act of rushedly doing something
    • Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop . – John Webster
  • (music) passing quickly from one note to the next

    • Anagrams

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    swooned

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (swoon)

    • swoon

    English

    Alternative forms

    * swound (archaic)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A faint.
  • * 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
    • "I felt my strength fading away, and I was in a half swoon . How long this horrible thing lasted I know not, but it seemed that a long time must have passed before he took his foul, awful, sneering mouth away. I saw it drip with the fresh blood!"
  • An infatuation

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (dated) to faint, to lose consciousness
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1918 , year_published=2008 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Edgar Rice Burroughs , title=The Gods of Mars , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage= I dropped the vessel quickly to a lower level. Nor was I a moment too soon. The girl had swooned . }}
  • to be overwhelmed by emotion (especially infatuation)

    • Derived terms

    * swooningly

    Synonyms

    * (faint) black out, faint, lose consciousness, pass out * (be overwhelmed by emotion)