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Sweep

noun
1.
A wide scope.  Synonym: expanse.
2.
Someone who cleans soot from chimneys.  Synonyms: chimneysweep, chimneysweeper.
3.
Winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge.  Synonym: slam.
4.
A long oar used in an open boat.  Synonym: sweep oar.
5.
(American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running around the end of the line.  Synonym: end run.
6.
A movement in an arc.
verb
(past & past part. swept; pres. part. sweeping)
1.
Sweep across or over.  Synonym: brush.  "A gasp swept cross the audience"
2.
Move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions.  Synonym: sail.  "Shreds of paper sailed through the air" , "The searchlights swept across the sky"
3.
Sweep with a broom or as if with a broom.  Synonym: broom.  "Sweep under the bed"
4.
Force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action.  Synonyms: drag, drag in, embroil, sweep up, tangle.  "Don't drag me into this business"
5.
To cover or extend over an area or time period.  Synonyms: cross, span, traverse.  "The parking lot spans 3 acres" , "The novel spans three centuries"
6.
Clean by sweeping.
7.
Win an overwhelming victory in or on.
8.
Cover the entire range of.
9.
Make a big sweeping gesture or movement.  Synonyms: swing, swing out.



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"Sweep" Quotes from Famous Books



... much too sleepy at dawn after a long night's hunting to begin to sweep and dust,' answered the owl. And they both made up their minds that wives they ...
— The Orange Fairy Book • Andrew Lang
... the gun in a convenient position about twenty yards from the margin of the river, on a piece of hard, flat ground, exactly opposite the centre of the line of vessels. This would sweep the approach in front ...
— Ismailia • Samuel W. Baker
... redeem the vineyard which thou hast planted, And sweep thence the strangers, and save us now! O regard the covenant which thou hast sealed in us! O remember for us the father who knew thee, To whom thou, too, didst make known thy love, And ...
— Chapters on Jewish Literature • Israel Abrahams
... of the shrouds left, also, and the backstay; but, of everything else, as far as we could judge at that distance, a clean sweep had been made fore and aft and the vessel seemed to ...
— Crown and Anchor - Under the Pen'ant • John Conroy Hutcheson
... Mr. Chetwynd," Gibbons growled, "is that the best thing to do would be to put a score of soldiers at the end of all these lanes, and then to burn the whole place down, and make a clean sweep of it. I never saw such a villainous looking crew in all my life. I have been in hopes all along that some of them would resist; it would have been a real pleasure to have let fly ...
— Colonel Thorndyke's Secret • G. A. Henty


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