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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

... until the growing cloud parted and lifted enough for them to see a band of wild horses sweeping along at a steady lope. They sighted the men and veered swiftly to the left. A moment later there was only a thin trail of flying dust before the four. Three pairs of eyes turned on Sinclair and silently cursed him as ...

— The Rangeland Avenger • Max Brand

... go back; the wind was rising to a gale, the sea was whitening. His heart went into his throat, for he recalled how the breakers thundered in at the cave and swept the strip of beach inside. Flinging down the calabashes, he ran with all his speed. Immense waves were sweeping the cavern from end to end. Their thunder deafened him. Out of an acre of seething white a brown arm lifted. He leaped in, seized Pupehe, and succeeded in gaining the shore, but to no avail. She was dead. After the storm had ...

— Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate • Charles M. Skinner

... open a spirited fusillade in the hope of bringing the airman to earth. But their very excitement contributes to his safety. The shots are fired without careful aim and expend themselves harmlessly. Sweeping once more upwards, the airman regains the pre-determined level, performs a certain evolution in the air which warns the observer at his base that he has made a discovery, and promptly drops his guiding signal directly over the point from ...

— Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War • Frederick A. Talbot

... much- prized Scriptures bore witness, whom they pretended to worship day and night continually; and received the just reward of their deeds in forty years of sedition, bloodshed, and misery, which ended by the Romans coming and sweeping the nation of the Jews from off the ...

— Sermons on National Subjects • Charles Kingsley

... day she saw a sailor picking the apples off a tree in the Austrian Admiral's garden, which overhung the road. The sentry came out, and a crowd of people assembled. Jack Tar looked at them scornfully, and went on munching his apple until they laid hands on him, when he gave a sweeping backhander, which knocked one or two of them over. Everything was ripe for a row, when Isabel stepped in between the combatants, and said to the sailor, "I am your Consul's wife, and they are trying to make you understand that these are the Austrian Admiral's apples, and you must not eat ...

— The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II • Isabel Lady Burton & W. H. Wilkins

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