What does swept mean?
Definitions for swept
swɛptswept
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Princeton's WordNet
sweptadjective
possessing sweep
"the sleek swept wings of the plane"
Webster Dictionary
Swept
of Sweep
Swept
imp. & p. p. of Sweep
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Swept
swept, pa.t. and pa.p. of sweep.
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'swept' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4331
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of swept in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of swept in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of swept in a Sentence
I feel like they [ Tabuk police ] are covering something up, we just don’t want to see this go away and be swept under the rug.
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
I once dreamed that relatives of those who died came to kill the survivors. one child missed a friend's hands as the person was swept away by waves.
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
We woke up to people screaming for help, the water had risen to our heads... and I saw people being swept away with the water with my own eyes.
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Translations for swept
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- balaitaEsperanto
- barridoSpanish
- spazzatoItalian
- varridaPortuguese
- 橫掃Chinese
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