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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

... a subject-predicate relation as when I say "this is an orange." The avikalpika stage thus reveals the universal associated with the particular, but as there is no association of name at this stage, the universal and the particular are taken in one sweep and not as terms of relation as subject and predicate or substance and attribute (jatyadisvarupavagahi na tu jatyadina@m mitho vis'e@sa@navis'e@syabhavavagahiti yavat) [Footnote ref 1]. He thinks that such a stage, when the object is only seen but not associated with ...

— A History of Indian Philosophy, Vol. 1 • Surendranath Dasgupta

... early winter sweep bitterly over Rosenheim, and all the vast Bavarian plain was one white sheet of snow. If there had not been whole armies of men at work always clearing the iron rails of the snow, no trains could ever ...

— Famous Stories Every Child Should Know • Various

... sweep thy Lyre, Prompt thy soft Lays, and breathe Seraphic Fire. Tears fall, Sighs rise, obedient to thy Strains, And the Blood dances in the mazy Veins!.... In social Spirits, lead thy Hours along, Thou Life of ...

— The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood • George Frisbie Whicher

... work in that corner of the room and creeping with no slow progress along the cornices of the bookshelves. Short time evidently there was for the family to remove their treasures from its destructive sweep. One corner of the room was in a light blaze; one or two lamps mockingly joined their light to the glare; the smoke was curling in grey wreaths and clouds over and around almost everything. Here an exquisite bust of Proserpine looked forlornly through ...

— Say and Seal, Volume II • Susan Warner

... be easy to pursue the subject farther, but I believe that every thoughtful reader will be perfectly well able to supply farther illustrations, and sweep away the sandy foundations of the opposite theory, unassisted. Let it, however, be observed, that in spite of all custom, an Englishman instantly acknowledges, and at first sight, the superiority of ...

— Modern Painters Volume II (of V) • John Ruskin

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