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Sweeping   /swˈipɪŋ/   Listen
Sweeping

adjective
1.
Taking in or moving over (or as if over) a wide area; often used in combination.  "A wide-sweeping view of the river"
2.
Ignoring distinctions.  Synonym: wholesale.  "Wholesale destruction"
noun
1.
The act of cleaning with a broom.


Sweep

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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"Sweeping" Quotes from Famous Books



... utter defeat in two sanguinary engagements. More than a thousand of their warriors fell, and the swarms of the victors poured continuously over the whole country between the Lakes Baringo and Naivasha, sweeping all the Masai before them, and getting an immense booty in women, children, and cattle. This was at the beginning of May; and the Masai, who knew not how to escape from their exasperated foes except by our aid, sent couriers ...
— Freeland - A Social Anticipation • Theodor Hertzka
... hold on now with one hand, and relax the muscles of the other a little. She tried with one hand presently to do something with that sweeping pennant of hair that lashed her in the face so unexpectedly now and then, but could only succeed in twisting it about her neck and tucking the ends into the neck of her riding habit; and from this frail binding it ...
— The Man of the Desert • Grace Livingston Hill
... the first quarter of this century, it is hardly too sweeping an assertion to say that, with a single exception, there was little that was important in the way of painting outside of France and England. There were local reputations in all the other countries, ...
— McClure's Magazine, March, 1896, Vol. VI., No. 4. • Various
... known harbour. Deceived by this, the ship which chased him followed on, and before even Jose himself was aware of the outlying reefs of coral, they struck almost together. The next minute Spaniard and Feringhee were struggling for their lives, while tremendous seas were sweeping over the two ...
— The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 29, May 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various
... them what I think of them," replied I, sweeping him aside. For my blood was up, and I was enraged ...
— The Deluge • David Graham Phillips


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