scoop something/someone up

Examples of scooping

scooping

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Scooping was undertaken for 15 - 30 min at each potential snail habitat and at the edges of larger water bodies.
Collection involved scooping out loose soil from the burrows and sieving it as described above.
The most prominent gestures were shuffling gestures, which ranged from scooping gestures to stroking gestures.
We also evaluated whether the degree of scooping affected the severity of regurgitation across the atrioventricular valve.
The deeper the scooping, the more deviated to the left and superior is the mean frontal axis.
Puparia were collected by removing the trays, scooping off the leaf litter, and sieving the sand through wire gauze.
Moreover, the morphology of the inferior bridging leaflet showed significant correlation with the degree of scooping and electrocardiographic findings.
Hearts with a more deficient interventricular septum (scooping) showed marked left axis deviation regardless of the development of the atrial septum (a and b).
In conclusion, the degree of scooping of the ventricular septum significantly affected the electrocardiographic findings in patients with atrioventricular septal defect and common atrioventricular orifice.
Neither the degree of scooping, nor the morphology of the superior and inferior bridging leaflets, was associated with the severity of regurgitation.
Cases with a milder scooping like (c) had slight left axis deviation or an intermediate axis.
The morphology of the superior bridging leaflet, in contrast, was not influenced by the degree of scooping, and neither was the severity of regurgitation of the atrioventricular valve.
There is widespread concern about industrial fishing for fishmeal, scooping out immature fish from the sea and damaging the possibilities for regeneration of the stock.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
When they started to fish the marks foreign trawlers were immediately on the scene, scooping the fish up.
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