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.
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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
While the overall rate of spending emergency rental assistance has improved, many programs are still too slow in getting assistance to tenants in need, those program administrators that can't or won't follow clear White House and The Treasury directives will have funding swept and reallocated to those that will.
There’s lot of expertise and a lot of history that is going to be lost, a lot of understanding of why the market is doing something, i think open-outcry died because as electronics came in the people who were afraid of them didn’t embrace them. And pit traders just got swept away like a tsunami.
Make sure that the inspectors actually inspect. Make sure that the snapback sanctions actually snap back. And make sure that Iran's violations aren't swept under the Persian rug, of one thing, I can assure you: Israel will be watching closely.
If it wasn't for the video, this would have been swept under the rug.
I want to find the truth, i don't want this swept under the rug.
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Translations for swept
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- balaitaEsperanto
- barridoSpanish
- spazzatoItalian
- varridaPortuguese
- 橫掃Chinese
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