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"ref": "2022 January 12, Howard Johnston, “Regional News: Scotland”, in RAIL, number 948, page 19:",
"text": "Bridge of Weir: Protection of the site of the former Kilmacolm branch station (closed on January 3 1983) has been lifted, and developers have swooped in with plans for new housing.",
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"(intransitive) To move swiftly, as if with a sweeping movement, especially to attack something."
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"text": "Thus the Phyſitian looks with another Eye on the Medicinal hearb, then the grazing Oxe, which ſwoops it in with the common graſs: […]",
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pike",
"sense": "an instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downwards",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "пике"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "an instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downwards",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "precipitación"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "an instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downwards",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "picado"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "an instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downwards",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "picada"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "an act of rushedly doing something",
"word": "précipitation"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "an act of rushedly doing something",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "precipitación"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "an act of rushedly doing something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "arrebato"
}
],
"word": "swoop"
}
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