- verbsweep (verb) · sweeps (third person present) · swept (past tense) · swept (past participle) · sweeping (present participle)
- clean (an area) by brushing away dirt or litter:"I've swept the floor"
- move or remove (dirt or litter) by sweeping:"she swept the tea leaves into a dustpan"
- move or push (someone or something) with great force:"I was swept along by the crowd" · "the party was swept from power"
- brush (hair) back from one's face or upward:"long hair swept up into a high chignon"
- move swiftly and smoothly:"a large black car swept past the open windows" · "a wave of sympathy swept over him"
- cause to move swiftly and smoothly:"he swept his hand around the room"
- (of a person) move in a confident and stately manner:"she swept magnificently from the hall"
- affect (an area or place) swiftly and widely:"the rebellion had swept through all four of the country's provinces" · "violence swept the country"
- (of a geographical or natural feature) extend continuously in a particular direction, especially in a curve:"green forests swept down the hillsides"
- NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISHwin all the games in (a series); take each of the winning or main places in (a contest or event):"we knew we had to sweep these three home games"
- search (an area) for something:"the detective swept the room for hair and fingerprints"
- examine (a place or object) for electronic listening devices:"the line is swept every fifteen minutes"
- cover (an entire area) with a gun:"they were trying to get the Lewis gun up behind some trees from where they would sweep the trench"
nounsweep (noun) · sweeps (plural noun)- an act of sweeping something with a brush:"I was giving the floor a quick sweep"
- short for chimney sweep
- a long, swift curving movement:"a grandiose sweep of his hand"
- electronicsthe movement of a beam across the screen of a cathode ray tube.
- medicinea procedure for inducing labor in a pregnant woman, in which a medical practitioner moves a finger around within the opening of the cervix to detach the amniotic membranes:"I went in for a sweep at 41 weeks" · "she asked if I wanted a membrane sweep to get labor going"
- a comprehensive search or survey of a place or area:"the police finished their sweep through the woods"
- NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISH(sweeps)a survey of the ratings of broadcast stations, carried out at regular intervals to determine advertising rates.
- a long, typically curved stretch of road, river, or land:"we could see a wide sweep of country perhaps a hundred miles across"
- a curved part of a driveway in front of a building:"one fork of the driveway continued on to the gravel sweep"
- the range or scope of something:"the whole sweep of the history of the USSR"
- informala sweepstake.
- NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISHan instance of winning every event, award, or place in a contest:"a World Series sweep"
- a long, heavy oar used to row a barge or other vessel:"a big, heavy sweep oar"
- a sail of a windmill.
- a long pole mounted as a lever for raising buckets from a well.
OriginOld English swāpan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to German schweifen ‘sweep in a curve’.Similar and Opposite Wordsverbnoun- an act of sweeping something with a brush:
- a long, swift curving movement:
- a comprehensive search or survey of a place or area:
- a long, typically curved stretch of road, river, or land:
- a sweepstake.
- a long, heavy oar used to row a barge or other vessel:
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