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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

... the last twenty-four hours, and I hurried up to join him. He was pointing with his stick at a large black object that lay half in the water and half on the sand. It appeared to be caught by some twisted willow roots so that the river could not sweep it away. A few hours before the spot must have ...

— The Willows • Algernon Blackwood

... da Gama, opened the sea-gates to the Indies. With four tiny ships he set sail from Lisbon in July, 1497 A.D., and after leaving the Cape Verde Islands made a wide sweep into the South Atlantic. Five months passed before Africa was seen again. Having doubled the Cape of Good Hope in safety, Da Gama skirted the eastern shores of Africa and at length secured the services of a Moslem ...

— EARLY EUROPEAN HISTORY • HUTTON WEBSTER

... farm of its kind with four hundred sheep, seven cows, two horses, a goat or two and poultry. When the little old woman with a face like a nut was alive she could see the whole tack at one sweep of the eye from the rowan at the door, on the left up to the plateau where five burns were born, on the right to the peak of Drimfern. A pleasant place for meditation, bleak in winter for the want of trees, but in other seasons in ...

— Gilian The Dreamer - His Fancy, His Love and Adventure • Neil Munro

... nurse named Madam Rousseau, and had taken at Montmorency a little apartment to pass the summers there. They did everything for themselves, and had neither a servant nor runner; each had his turn weekly to purchase provisions, do the business of the kitchen, and sweep the house. They managed tolerably well, and we sometimes ate with each other. I know not for what reason they gave themselves any concern about me: for my part, my only motive for beginning an acquaintance with them was their playing at chess, and to make a poor little party I suffered four hours' ...

— The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete • Jean Jacques Rousseau

... more novelty in the sentiments, a greater sweep of subjects, and a finer sense of moral beauty displayed by Mr. Tupper, than we remember to have seen in any work of its class, excepting of course the 'Proverbs of Solomon.' We also discover in his 'Philosophy' the stores of extensive ...

— My Life as an Author • Martin Farquhar Tupper

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