What does swept mean?
Definitions for swept
swɛptswept
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word swept.
Princeton's WordNet
swept(adj)
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
While at work, without any initial interaction leading him to believe theres a potential threat, he was attacked by an inmate, the inmate caught him off-guard, grabbed him by his throat and then swept his legs out from under so aggressively that when he was knocked off balance and thrown to the floor, the first part of his body to strike the cement was his head.
There are wards which were completely washed away. The mortuary was swept away. You wouldn't know that once upon a time there was a mortuary there. The drugs and drug stores were washed away.
The floodwater killed 10 people and caused serious injuries to 21 others at the mosque. Some of them had been swept away in the floodwater and are still missing.
Wind just kind of swept through the smokehouse a lot more than we’re used to and carried an ember from a cooker and caught a wall on fire, it went up real quick.
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.
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Translations for swept
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- balaitaEsperanto
- barridoSpanish
- varridaPortuguese
- 橫掃Chinese
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