The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word DOVE
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result DOVE
- Bird sank into water in America
- Bird plunged into water
- Bird swooped
- Bird dived across the pond
- Pacifist in America jumped off cliff
- & 2 Eve faced poo spattering – not Trump’s kind of bird
- Pigeon plunged in Texas
- Bird ousting rook from collective group
- Female captivates very peaceful type
- Bird fell rapidly from sky in America? Doesn’t sound like it
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The straight part
We know that "Bird/swooped" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case bird/swooped = dove.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does DOVE mean?
DOVE noun- A pigeon, especially one smaller in size; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae.
- A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict.
- Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.
- A greyish, bluish, pinkish colour like that of the bird.
- To swim under water.
- To jump into water head-first.
- To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance.
- To descend sharply or steeply.
- (especially with in) To undertake with enthusiasm.
- To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised.
- To cause to descend, dunk; to plunge something into water.
- To explore by diving; to plunge into.
- To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.