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Definitions for swept
swɛptswept
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Princeton's WordNet
sweptadjective
possessing sweep
"the sleek swept wings of the plane"
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Sweptthe participle and preterite of sweep.
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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
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.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford:
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.
It was a dark and stormy night the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
I heard a big noise, and the next thing I know I was swept away by the snow, i must have been swept almost 200 meters (yards).
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- balaitaEsperanto
- barridoSpanish
- spazzatoItalian
- varridaPortuguese
- 橫掃Chinese
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