Crossword clues for swept
swept
- Like a clean floor
- Didn't lose a game
- Did some housekeeping
- Won three lost none
- Won the World Series in four games, e.g
- Won the NBA Finals in four games, say
- Won it all
- Won in the shortest possible series
- Won four of four games, say
- Won every match of
- Won every game of
- Won all the games of
- Wielded a whisk
- Vacuumed? No, less
- Used a broom to clean
- Took three out of three, say
- Took three of three, say
- Took three of three games, say
- Took three of three
- Took the World Series in four
- Took the Series in four, e.g
- Took the Series in four
- Took the entire series
- Took four of four, say
- Took four of four games, say
- Searched, as for bugs
- Removed by vigorous action
- Prepared floors for mopping
- Plied a broom
- Like teams that don't even win one game in a series
- Like a floor ready to be mopped
- Got ready for company, perhaps
- Didn't lose at all
- Dealt with a dusty floor
- Cleared away with a broom
- Cleaned, as a porch
- Cleaned off, in a way
- Cleaned a floor
- Brushed (away)
- '02 Alanis Morissette album "Under Rug ___"
- Like some floors and series
- Won all the races
- Thoroughly searched
- Used a broom on
- Took the World Series in four games
- Clean, as a floor
- Got award after award
- Won all the games in a series
- Went 4-0, say
- Did a little housekeeping
- Won the World Series in four games, say
- Did some housecleaning
- Cleaned, in a way
- Used a besom
- Won big
- Cleaned (up)
- "___ Away," Wertmüller film
- Won without one loss
- Cleaned out, son displayed sorrow
- Week early in month passed quickly
- Son cried and did some housework
- In short autumn month wife did some cleaning
- Time church benches must be lifted and brushed
- Won every game of a series
- Won totally, as a series
- Searched thoroughly
- Cleaned with a broom
- Searched for bugs
- Did a household chore
- Cleaned the floor
- Wielded a broom
- Took the series without a loss
- Did a cleaning chore
- Cleaned, as a driveway
- Won four, lost none
- Won all games in a series
- Tidied up, in a way
- Pushed a broom
- Made the dust clear, in a way
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sweep \Sweep\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swept; p. pr. & vb. n. Sweeping.] [OE. swepen; akin to AS. sw[=a]pan. See Swoop, v. i.]
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To pass a broom across (a surface) so as to remove loose dirt, dust, etc.; to brush, or rub over, with a broom for the purpose of cleaning; as, to sweep a floor, the street, or a chimney. Used also figuratively.
I will sweep it with the besom of destruction.
--Isa. xiv. 23. -
To drive or carry along or off with a broom or a brush, or as if with a broom; to remove by, or as if by, brushing; as, to sweep dirt from a floor; the wind sweeps the snow from the hills; a freshet sweeps away a dam, timber, or rubbish; a pestilence sweeps off multitudes.
The hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies.
--Isa. xxviii. 17.I have already swept the stakes.
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To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
Their long descending train, With rubies edged and sapphires, swept the plain.
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To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
And like a peacock sweep along his tail.
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To strike with a long stroke.
Wake into voice each silent string, And sweep the sounding lyre.
--Pope. (Naut.) To draw or drag something over; as, to sweep the bottom of a river with a net.
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To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation; as, to sweep the heavens with a telescope.
To sweep a mold or To sweep up a mold (Founding), to form the sand into a mold by a templet, instead of compressing it around the pattern.
Swept \Swept\, imp. & p. p. of Sweep.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
past participle of sweep (v.).
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: sweep)
WordNet
adj. possessing sweep; "the sleek swept wings of the plane" [ant: unswept]
n. a wide scope; "the sweep of the plains" [syn: expanse]
someone who cleans soot from chimneys [syn: chimneysweeper, chimneysweep]
winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge [syn: slam]
a long oar used in an open boat [syn: sweep oar]
(American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running around the end of the line [syn: end run]
a movement in an arc; "a sweep of his arm"
[also: swept]
v. sweep across or over; "Her long skirt brushed the floor"; "A gasp swept cross the audience" [syn: brush]
move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions; "The diva swept into the room"; "Shreds of paper sailed through the air"; "The searchlights swept across the sky" [syn: sail]
sweep with a broom or as if with a broom; "Sweep the crumbs off the table"; "Sweep under the bed" [syn: broom]
force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action; "They were swept up by the events"; "don't drag me into this business" [syn: embroil, tangle, sweep up, drag, drag in]
to cover or extend over an area or time period; "Rivers traverse the valley floor", "The parking lot spans 3 acres"; "The novel spans three centuries" [syn: cross, traverse, span]
clean by sweeping; "Please sweep the floor"
win an overwhelming victory in or on; "Her new show dog swept all championships"
cover the entire range of
make a big sweeping gesture or movement [syn: swing, swing out]
[also: swept]
See sweep
Usage examples of "swept".
The navies of Helium and the First Born had cleared the fortresses and the temples of the therns when they had refused to surrender and accept the new order of things that had swept their false religion from long-suffering Mars.
I snatched up those trousers without which the best of heroes is nothing, and had hardly got into them when there came the patter of light feet without and a Martian, in a hurry for once, with half a dozen others behind him, swept aside the curtains of my doorway.
Suddenly she ceased, raised herself to her feet, rearranged her robe, and, tossing back her long locks impatiently, swept across to where the figure lay upon the stone.
The missing person had evidently been swept off by the sea, which had just struck the net, and it was owing to this circumstance that the lightened balloon rose the last time, and then soon after reached the land.
On came the crashing, rolling noise, and the sound of it was as the sound of a forest being swept flat by a mighty wind, and then tossed up like so much grass, and thundered down a mountain-side.
Suddenly a qualm of nausea swept over me, my senses swam, my knees gave beneath me and I pitched headlong to the ground upon the very verge of the dizzy bluff.
The scene that met my eyes was so un-Martian that my heart sprang to my throat as the sudden fear swept through me that I had been aimlessly tossed upon some strange planet by a cruel fate.
It was into the eyes of such as these and the terrible plant men that I gazed above the shoulder of my foe, and then, in a mighty wave of snarling, snapping, screaming, purring rage, they swept over me--and of all the sounds that assailed my ears as I went down beneath them, to me the most hideous was the horrid purring of the plant men.
In great circles the air craft of the marauders swept lower and lower toward the defending forces of the therns.
One of the blacks opened the door of the prison with a huge key, we walked in, the door closed behind us, the lock grated, and with the sound there swept over me again that terrible feeling of hopelessness that I had felt in the Chamber of Mystery in the Golden Cliffs beneath the gardens of the Holy Therns.
Well, I would make the best of it, and, rising, I swept aside the brooding despair that had been endeavouring to claim me.
The words were scarce out of my mouth as we swept beneath the pitch-black opening.
As the sun rose and the light of a new day swept away the darkness of night our craft gave a final spasmodic plunge, turned half upon her side, and then with deck tilting at a sickening angle swung in a slow circle, her bow dropping further below her stern each moment.
Then an officer ordered them back, while from the outer corridor there swept into the throne room at the heels of my little party of survivors a full thousand red men under Kantos Kan, Hor Vastus, and Xodar.
I asked myself, the foolish wish that started from my lips in a moment of fierce discontent, and swept me into another sphere, another existence?