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Swooping vs Stooping - What's the difference?

swooping | stooping |

As verbs the difference between swooping and stooping

is that swooping is present participle of lang=en while stooping is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between swooping and stooping

is that swooping is the action of the verb to swoop while stooping is the act of one who stoops.

As adjectives the difference between swooping and stooping

is that swooping is that swoops or swoop while stooping is bending the body forward; yielding; submitting; condescending; inclining.

swooping

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb to swoop .
  • * (Annie Finch)
    • 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.

    Adjective

    (head)
  • That swoops or swoop.
    • a swooping motion

    stooping

    English

    Alternative forms

    * stouping

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Bending the body forward; yielding; submitting; condescending; inclining.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who stoops.
  • * 2011 , Don DeLillo, The Names
    • This place was returning to me a sense of my own motion through it, my stoopings into rooms, my pauses to judge the way.

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