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Definitions for swept
swɛptswept

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. sweptadjective

    possessing sweep

    "the sleek swept wings of the plane"

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Sweptthe participle and preterite of sweep.

ChatGPT

  1. swept

    Swept in general describes something that's clean or cleared by pushing or brushing it with a broom or brush. It also refers to having been moved or carried along smoothly or swiftly, typically by a current of air, water, or by a particular trend or influence. It can also describe the shape of something, being curved, elongated or having a smooth continuous line especially towards one end or the other.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Swept

    of Sweep

  2. Swept

    imp. & p. p. of Sweep

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Swept

    swept, pa.t. and pa.p. of sweep.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'swept' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4331

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of swept in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of swept in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of swept in a Sentence

  1. Carolyn Baylor-Giummo:

    I want to find the truth, i don't want this swept under the rug.

  2. Benjamin Crump:

    We will be here to make sure that this is not swept under the rug, we come here to stand with these 13 victims of rape, who happen to be African-American women, to say that their lives matter, too.

  3. Masaharu Ishizawa:

    The river has never flooded like this before, and some houses have been completely swept away. I think it might be time to redraw hazard maps or reconsider evacuation plans.

  4. Michela Favorito:

    We saw the explosion from the hotel. There was a loud roar, we plugged our ears and after this a cloud of ash swept over us. The whole sky is full of ash, a fairly large cloud.

  5. Ramil Arania:

    We were lucky, because the water made a hole in our wall that created a pocket for the water to pass through and not collapse it, we managed to get to the second floor -- if it wasn't for that hole, it would have collapsed and we'd have been swept away.

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