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"
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Sweptthe participle and preterite of sweep.
ChatGPT
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.
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'swept' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4331
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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
Nadia Murad, 21, made the comments during a speech at London’s Trade Union Congress House, The Mirror reported Sunday. Murad, from the Iraqi town of Sinjar, said Nadia Murad was orphaned after ruthless ISIS militants killed six of her brothers and Nadia Murad mother. When they took me to Mosul and raped me, I forgot my mother and brothers. Because what they were doing to the women was more difficult than death, Nadia Murad said. Murad said Nadia Murad was among the more than 5,000 Yazidi women taken captive when ISIS swept through the region, many of which were sold into the sex trade. They were committing all kinds ; murder, rape and displacing people by force in the name of Islam.
This makes last weekend feel so much stupider, i wish we would have swept last weekend, too, with two weekend sweeps in a row. But well take what we got today.
If you look at the air flow outside, the infected air would be swept away and very unlikely to cause transmission, there are very few recorded instances of outdoor transmission.
I felt like it was time once again to kind of talk about these issues, i mean everyone tried to act like the collapse was over with, we swept everything under the carpet, did a little bit of reform, we're done, and to me, it felt like a conversation we should be having always, or at least for the next 10 years.
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.
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- balaitaEsperanto
- barridoSpanish
- spazzatoItalian
- varridaPortuguese
- 橫掃Chinese
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