Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“swooped” is a form of

swoop

/ˈswuːp/ verb, noun

Forms swoops swooping swooped

  1. 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.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To move swiftly, as if with a sweeping movement, especially to attack something. “The dog had enthusiastically swooped down on the bone.”
  3. verb (transitive) To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing.
  4. verb (transitive) To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
  5. verb (intransitive) To pass with pomp; to sweep.
  6. verb (UK, prison slang) To search the ground for discarded cigarette butts that can be made into new cigarettes.
  7. noun An instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downward.
  8. noun A sudden act of seizing.
  9. noun (music) A quick passage from one note to the next.
  10. noun (collective) A group of swallows or other birds.

Synonyms

stoop slide pounce swoop up

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English swopen (“to sweep”), from Old English swāpan. Doublet of swaip. See also sweep, which was probably the basis for analogical restoration of /w/ in this word.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing; as, a hawk swoops a chicken.
  2. verb To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
  3. verb To descend with closed wings from a height upon prey, as a hawk; to swoop.
  4. verb To pass with pomp; to sweep. [Obs.] Drayton.

Etymology [OE. swopen, usually, to sweep, As. swapan to sweep, to rush; akin to G. schweifen to rove, to ramble, to curve, OHG. sweifan to whirl, Icel. sveipa to sweep; also to AS. swifan to move quickly. Cf. Sweep, Swift, a. & n., Swipe, Swivel.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “swoop”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “swoop” (best matches first).