Sweep

Definition: Sweep

Sweep

Noun

1. A wide scope; "the sweep of the plains".

2. Someone who cleans soot from chimneys.

3. Winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge.

4. A long oar used in an open boat.

5. (football) an attempt to advance the ball by running around the end of the line.

6. A movement in an arc; "a sweep of his arm".

Verb

1. Sweep across or over; "Her long skirt brushed the floor"; "A gasp swept cross the audience".

2. Move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions; "The diva swept into the room"; "Shreds of paper sailed through the air"; "The searchlights swept across the sky".

3. Sweep with a broom or as if with a broom; "Sweep the crumbs off the table"; "Sweep under the bed".

4. Force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action; "They were swept up by the events"; "don't drag me into this business".

5. To cover a wide area; "Rivers traverse the valley floor", "The parking lot spans 3 acres".

6. Clean by sweeping; "Please sweep the floor".

7. Win an overwhelming victory in or on: "Her new show dog swept all championships".

8. Cover the entire range of.

9. Make a big sweeping gesture or movement.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sweep" was first used: 12th century. (references)

Note: Sweep \Sweep\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Swept; Sweeping.]. (references)

Aerospace

Electrical Engineering

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Food & Agriculture

Literature

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Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Sweep

Cleanness

Sift, winnow, pick, weed, comb, rake, brush, sweep.

Lavatory, laundry, washhouse; washerwoman, laundress, dhobi, laundryman, washerman; scavenger, dustman, sweep; white wings

Curvature

Verb: be curved; Adjective: curve, sweep, sway, swag, sag; deviate; curl, turn; reenter.

Curvature, curvity, curvation; incurvature, incurvity; incurvation; bend; flexure, flexion, flection; conflexure; crook, hook, bought, bending; deflection, deflexion; inflection, inflexion; concameration; arcuation, devexity, turn, deviation, detour, sweep; curl, curling; bough; recurvity, recurvation; sinuosity.

Deviation

Noun: deviation; swerving; Verb: obliquation, warp, refraction; flection, flexion; sweep; deflection, deflexure; declination.

Space

Noun: space, extension, extent, superficial extent, expanse, stretch, hyperspace; room, scope, range, field, way, expansion, compass, sweep, swing, spread.

Stealing

Plunder, pillage, rifle, sack, loot, ransack, spoil, spoliate, despoil, strip, sweep, gut, forage, levy blackmail, pirate, pickeer, maraud, lift cattle, poach; smuggle, run; badger; bail up, hold up, stick up; bunco, bunko, filibuster.

Uncleanness

Dowdy, drab, malkin, slattern, sloven, slammerkin, slammock, slummock, scrub, draggle-tail, mudlark, dust-man, sweep; beast.

Velocity

Verb: move quickly, trip, fisk; speed, hie, hasten, post, spank, scuttle; scud, scuddle; scour, scour the plain; scamper; run like mad, beat it; fly, race, run a race, cut away, shot, tear, whisk, zoom, swoosh, sweep, skim, brush; cut along, bowl along, barrel along, barrel; scorch, burn up the track; rush; (be violent); dash on, dash off, dash forward; bolt; trot, gallop, amble, troll, bound, flit, spring, dart, boom; march in quick time, march in double time; ride hard, get over the ground.

Crosswords: Sweep

I'm gettin' ready to launch a little thing called operation sweep her off her feet (Shanghai Knights; writing credit: Alfred Gough; Miles Millar)

While we're gone, I want you to sweep the chimney (AlfTales; writing credit: Bradley Kesden; Mitchell Kriegman)

Nora won the Irish Sweep, madam, and left (Midnight Lace; writing credit: Janet Green; Ivan Goff)

You clean, we'll sweep. (Equilibrium; writing credit: Kurt Wimmer)

All you've ever done in your life is cook, clean, dust, sweep, scrub, suckle, and nurture (Life with Louie; writing credit: Martin Miehe-Renard; Mette Andersen Ottesen)

Love shines to sweep away the past (Price of Love; performing artist: Bad English)

On we sweep with threshing oar, Our only goal will be the western shore (Immigrant song; performing artist: Led Zeppelin)

Some things sure can sweep me off my feet (Burning Down The House; performing artist: Talking Heads)

Give me a broom and I'll sweep my way to heaven (Mr. Sellack; performing artist: The Roches)

Clean Sweep (1967)

Supermarket Sweep (1965)

Little Chimney Sweep (1960)

The Little Chimney Sweep (1954)

A Clean Sweep (1938)

Sweep, Chimney Sweep (performing artist: Steeleye Span)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Be Your Own Chimney Sweep (reference)

• Five Hans Christian Andersen Stories: Shepherdess & Chimney Sweep, Pixie at Grover'S, Sweethearts, Tinderbox & Twelve by Coach (reference)

• Willowcat and the Chimney Sweep (reference)

• The Grand Sweep: 365 Days from Genesis Through Revelation: Daily Response Book (The Grand Sweep) (reference)

• Sweep!: With Street Sweeper (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Sweep Of Time (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Sweep over My Soul (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• JET JW1003 Floor Sweep (reference)

• Malco MS24WH 24" Wheeled Magnetic Sweep with Hopper (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Don't Let Love Sweep You Off Your Feet. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Tied up at Chinnampo, North Korea, in November 1950, after taking part in clearing a channel more that sixty miles from out in the Yellow Sea and up the Taedong River to that city. Note flags and sweep gear at the ships' sterns, including depressors hanging over the transoms, otters on deck and floats and cable reels further forward. Credit: NAVY.

Crewmen use flight deck tractors with power brooms to sweep snow from the carrier's flight deck, during operations off Korea, circa early 1951. Photo is dated 8 May 1951, but Valley Forge ended her second Korean War deployment in late March of that year. Plane parked in the foreground is a F4U-4 "Corsair" fighter. Those on the forward flight deck are an AD "Skyraider" attack plane and a HO3S helicopter. Credit: NAVY.

Photographed from directly astern, off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 10 June 1942. The actual date of the photo may be 9 June 1942. Note details of her conversion to a fast minesweeper: squared-off triangular transom, with her name visible; sweep gear and davits on the stern; depth charge tracks angled out over the propeller guards; .50 caliber anti-aircraft machineguns at the rear of her after deckhouse. Credit: NAVY.

At Pearl Harbor, soon after the end of her third war patrol, circa 7 February 1943. Her Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Commander Dudley W. Morton, is on the open bridge, in right center. Officer standing at left appears to be the Executive Officer, Lieutenant Richard H. O'Kane. Note: broom lashed to the periscope head, indicating a "clean sweep" of enemy targets encountered; pennant bearing the slogan "Shoot the sunza bitches" and eight small flags, representing claimed sinkings of two Japanese warships and six merchant vessels. Note that the forward radar mast, mounted in front of the periscope shears, has been censored out of this photograph. Credit: NAVY.

To sweep the Augean Stable. For President, Andrew Jackson. For Vice-President, John C. Calhoun. Credit: Library of Congress.

Child shepherdess and boy chimney sweep on chimney] / Lydia Field Emmet. Credit: Library of Congress.

Power for hoisting sugarcane is supplied by these mules and sweep. Near Delcambre, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Rehabilitation Administration client racking clover with "sweep rake" at farm. St. Charles Parish, Louisana. Credit: Library of Congress.

A clean sweep / Thos. Worth. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Conquerors, it is true, seldom trouble themselves to make the distinction, but they willingly permit the confusion of war to sweep all together: but yet this alters not the right; for the conquerors power over the lives of the conquered, being only because they have used force to do, or maintain an injustice, he can have that power only over those who have concurred in that force; all the rest are innocent; and he has no more title over the people of that country, who have done him no injury, and so have made no forfeiture of their lives, than he has over any other, who, without any injuries or provocations, have lived upon fair terms with him. (Second Treatise of Government)

Germany must also sweep and keep free from mines such areas in the Baltic as may ultimately be notified by the Governments of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

For a while they flew on, motionless against the starry sweep of the Galaxy, itself motionless against the infinite sweep of the Universe

Measure this sweep of wing which reaches from Moliere to Barra

They coasted down the long sweep to the floor of the desert, and the fan turned over to cool the water in the radiator

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Shigellosis is particularly common and causes recurrent problems in settings where hygiene is poor and can sometimes sweep through entire communities. (references)

Because you find mouse droppings and some of the furniture stuffing the mice have used as nesting material, you get a broom and sweep up the mess. As you move around and sweep, tiny particles of fresh urine, droppings and saliva, with the virus in them, get kicked up into the air. This is the aerosolization. (references)

Civil Liberties

Guatemala

Despite the FRG's electoral sweep of most major offices, Rabbe was defeated. (references)

Economic History

Equatorial Guinea

Local elections in May 2000 saw the PDGE overwhelm its rivals once again, winning a clean sweep of all major municipalities. (references)

Haiti

Controversy mired the good start, however, when the CEP used a flawed methodology to determine the winners of the Senate races, thus avoiding run-off elections for eight seats and giving the FL a virtual sweep in the first round. (references)

Human Rights

Namibia

In 2000 approximately 15 Kxoe men were arrested during a security sweep in western Caprivi. (references)

Bangladesh

When the authorities arrived at the dormitories for the sweep, the student activists had left. (references)

Cameroon

The Police Commissioner claimed the sweep was undertaken to deter bandits from operating in the area. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "sweep": armed sweep ♦ asymmetrical sweep ♦ bottom sweep ♦ chimney sweep ♦ clean sweep ♦ electrode sweep ♦ fighter sweep ♦ give a quick sweep ♦ give smth. a sweep ♦ influence sweep ♦ leading sweep of propeller ♦ make a clean sweep of ♦ make a clean sweep of smth. ♦ mechanical sweep ♦ net sweep ♦ oropesa sweep ♦ parallel sweep search ♦ quick sweep ♦ solenoid sweep ♦ sweep * ♦ sweep all obstacles from one's path ♦ sweep along ♦ sweep angle ♦ sweep aside ♦ sweep away ♦ sweep back ♦ sweep before one ♦ sweep before your door! ♦ sweep by ♦ sweep clean ♦ sweep down ♦ sweep down on ♦ sweep hand ♦ sweep in ♦ sweep jamming ♦ sweep net ♦ sweep oar ♦ sweep of the tiller ♦ sweep off ♦ sweep on ♦ sweep out ♦ sweep over ♦ sweep past ♦ sweep smb. off his feet ♦ sweep smth. under the carpet ♦ sweep the board ♦ sweep the stakes ♦ sweep through ♦ sweep under the carpet ♦ sweep under the rug ♦ sweep up ♦ synchronised sweep ♦ synchronized sweep ♦ to sweep a mold ♦ To sweep or sweep up ♦ To sweep the deck ♦ to sweep up a mold ♦ variable sweep ♦ well sweep ♦ with a sweep of the arm. Additional references.

Beginning with "sweep": sweep-picked, sweep-picking, Sweep-saw, sweep-second, sweep-the-mouse, sweep-through, sweep-up.

Ending with "sweep": chimney-sweep.

Containing "sweep": mark-sweep garbage collection.

Albanian

pushtoj (carry, conquer, creep over, enfold, engross, envelop, fold, hog, invade, jump, obsess, overcome, overreach, overrun, overtake, overwhelm, pervade, possess, reach, reduce, reign, rush back, seize, smite, straddle, take, take a fancy to, take possession of), pastroj (abrade, char, clarify, clean, cleanse, clear up, defecate, depurate, deterge, eliminate, grub, gut, lustrate, pick, purge, rarefy, rectify, refine, scavenge, scour, scrub, try), pastrim (abrasion, abstersion, clarification, clean, cleaning, cleanup, clearance, defecation, depuration, lustration, mopping, purge, purification, rectification, refinement, refining, scour, scouring, scrub, scrub up), përfshij (add in, comprehend, comprise, contain, count in, cover, embrace, imply, include, incorporate, involve, mix in, reach, span, store, subsume), oxhakfshirës (chimney sweep), njeri i poshtër (caitiff, stinkard), mbledh (accumulate, add, add together, assemble, bank, brush up, call in, call together, cast, cast up, clench, collate, collect, compile, compress, congregate, convene, convoke, draw, dredge, drum up, focus, fold, fund, furl, gather, get together, group, herd, impound, kilt, levy, lift, make up, pack, pick, pick off, pick up, pool, rally, reap, round up, scoop up, shut, take, total, totalize), lëvizje e pandërprerë, fshij (brush, brush away, cancel, clean off, clean up, deface, delete, efface, erase, mop up, obliterate, rase, raze, remove, rub, rub out, scratch out, strike off, wipe, wipe away, wipe off). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تمشيط (carding, mop), ‏رمى (bin, bowl along, cast, cast down, chuck, discard, lance, pitch, pop, project, sling, strike in, throw, tilt), ‏أزال الألغام, ‏ألقى نظرة عامة (preview), ‏إبتعد (distance, feel one's way, give a wide berth, go away, keep away, pull away, recede, roll away, stand, subside), ‏إدفاع قوي متصل, ‏إزالة (abstraction, eliminate, elimination, removal), ‏إندفع بخفة, ‏إمتداد (expansion, extension, extent, length, lengthiness, propagation, protraction, reach, span, spread, stretch), ‏جرف (cliff, curette, drag, dragging, drift, escarpment, palisade, plow, precipice, rake, shovel, sweep away, sweeping, transport, undercut bank, wash), ‏زلق (lubricate, lubricious, slick, slip, slippery, slippy, slither, unctuous), ‏دفع (actuate, anticipate, bleed, boost, carry, crowd, dig, disburse, drive, eject, encourage, flog, galvanize, give, impulse, instigate, jog, jostle, motivate, nuzzle, pay, pay down, payment, plank, press, prompt, propel, propulsion, push, remit, render up, repulsion, roll, rouse, shove, spur, thrust, thrusting, waft, wheel), ‏تقوس (arch, bend, bow, curve, hog), ‏فوز ساحق (slam), ‏حركة مائلة, ‏نظف المدخنة, ‏مدى (ambit, amplitude, carry, extent, gage, gauge, incidence, latitude, length, ocean, range, reach, scope, space, stretch), ‏مس مسا رفيقا, ‏مسح (clean, extinguish, mop, mop up, mopping, polish, rub, scanning, scrub, sponge, survey, swab, wipe, wiping), ‏منظف المداخن (chimney sweep), ‏كسح (palsy, paralysis, paraplegia), ‏كسب بفوز ساحق, ‏كناس الشوارع, ‏كنس (besom, broom, rake, scavenge, sweeping, whisk), ‏يكتح, ‏سحق (bash, batter, beat, beating, bow, break, crack, crumple, crunch, crush, flatten, grind, jam, levigate, mow, overwhelm, pound, pounding, powder, pulverization, pulverize, put down, quash, reduce, run over smth., scotch, slam, smash, squash, squeeze, squelch, steam roller, suppress, trample, tread, triturate, trituration). (various references)

Asturian

escobiar (to sweep). (various references)

Aymara

pichaña (broom, to sweep). (various references)

Bemba

ukupyanga (to sweep). (various references)

Blackfoot

yaamaahkiaaki (to sweep). (various references)

Bulgarian 

понасям се (rush off), едно замахване със сабя, едно замахване с четка, едно замахване с метла, лотарийно залагане (sweepstake), простирам се (continue, go, lie, range, reach, reach down, run, run down), профучавам (flash, hurl, hurtle, roar by, scour, spank, sweep by, sweep past, whoosh), протежение (expanse, extent, length, reach, run, spread, stretch), противен човек (prune, stink-pot, swine, ugly customer), прокарвам (carry, cut, drive, get through, lace, open, pursue, push through, put through, run), докосвам леко с пръсти, прииждане (surge), метене (sweeping), помитане (sweeping), помитам (broom, sweep away, sweep up, wipe out), извивка (bend, convolution, crook, curve, flection, flexion, fold, incurvation, indentation, kink, return, sinuosity, tortuousity, twine, twist, wave, wind, winding), извивам се (crook, meander, nutate, spring, turn in, twist, wind, wriggle), измитане, измитам (sweep away, sweep out), дълго тежко корабно платно, движа се тържествено (sail), движа се плавно (scud, slip along, swim), докосвам леко с ръка, преминавам през (go over, pass over), омитам (polish off, sweep clean), разглеждам с телескоп, хвърлям бърз поглед (glimpse, squint), течение (course, current, draught, drift, flow, flowage, flux, fluxion, lapse, onflow, passage, stream, tide), шаблон при стругуване, кръстосвам (cross, crossbreed, cruise, hybridize, intercross, intersect, mix, range, walk), крива (curve, graph), крило на вятърна мелница (fly, sail, sail arm, vane, whip, wind-sail), кобилица (yoke), груб човек (bear, tartar), геранило, завой (bend, crook, curve, elbow, flexure, hook, return, sinuosity, tortuousity, turn, turning, wind, winding), отнасяне от вятъра, мета (broom, sweep up), обстрелвам с артилерия (shell), обхват (compass, coverage, extent, orb, radius, range, scope, spread), обиране на всички награди, опустошавам (become desolate, depredate, devastate, havoc, infest, overrun, ravage, scourge, waste, wreak), нося се (be rife, bound, drift, float, hover, rack, resound, ride, roll, sail, sashay, skim, skitter, slip, spin along, wear, wing), невъзпитан човек (bounder, outsider, tike, tyke), непрестанно движение напред, нахвърлям се върху (make for, mob, oppugn, pelt, round on, sail into, set at, tuck into, turn on, turn upon), мръсен тип, спечелвам с голямо болшинство, влача се по земята (traipse). (various references)

Catalan

escombrar. (various references)

Cebuano

mosilhig (to sweep). (various references)

Chamorro

para ma balle (to sweep). (various references)

Chinese 

�"扫, 席卷 (carry away everything, engulf). (various references)

Cornish

scüba (to sweep). (various references)

Czech

seknutí (chop, cut, hack, slash, stroke), smetí (garbage, litter, rubbish, sweepings, trash), èistit (clean, cleanse, depurate, fine down, groom, scour), dosah (compass, coverage, outreach, purview, radius, range, reach), kominík (chimney sweep), mávnutí (wave), nálet (air raid, hedgehop, raid), odstranit (ablate, clear away, discharge, dismantle, dispose of, do away with, eliminate, get out, remove, supersede, take away), škála (dial, range, scale, spread), rozmach (development, expansion, swing, upswing, upturn), zrušit (abolish, abrogate, annul, break off, call off, cancel, close down, countermand, destroy, disannul, discontinue, dissolve, do away with, invalidate, nullify, overturn, quash, raise, repeal, rescind, revers, reverse, revoke, set aside, stop, strike off, take off, undo, unmake, vitiate, void, withdraw), veslo (oar, paddle), vlát (flutter, fly, stream, wave), vlnit se (Crimp, curl, ripple, surge, undulate, wave), zametání, zametat, zasáhnout (catch, get, hit, strike), proèesávat. (various references)

Danish

feje. (various references)

Dutch

oprit (access, approach, drive). (various references)

Esperanto

pafatingi (command, cover), balai, alveturejo (access, approach, drive). (various references)

Faeroese

sópa. (various references)

Farsi 

وسعت میدان دید, زدودن (Clean, Efface, Obliterate, Purge, Remove, Scour, Scrape, Shuck, Swab, Wipe), جاروب کردن (Broom, Scavenger, Whisk, Wisp), جارو, ازاین سوبان سوحرکت دادن , روفتن , بسرعت گذشتن از. (various references)

Finnish

skannaus (scanning, trace), saattoköysi (sweepline), pyyhkäisy (scanning, trace), pyyhkäistä (wipe), piirto (line, mark, score, stroke), nuolimuoto, nuolikulma, nuohota, lenkous, lenko, lakaista. (various references)

French

balayer, courbure, balayage (sweeping). (various references)

Frisian

feie (to sweep). (various references)

German

fegen (bomb, brush, fray, race, whisk), kehren (bother, brush, turn, turn around, turn round). (various references)

Greek 

σκουπίζω (scavenge, wipe, wipe off), σαρώνω (scan). (various references)

Hebrew 

מ� ק�" ארובות (chimney sweep), ל�'רוף (scoop, sweep away), לטאטא (mop up, whisk), לסחוף (carry away, drift, erode, sweep away, wash away), תחום (area, border, bound, boundary, compass, confines, domain, limit, mete, orb, precinct, radius, range, realm, region, scope, sphere, territory, zone), ת� ופ�" (amplitude, drive, energy, impetus, leverage, lifting up, momentum, swing, waving), �"קף (circuit, circumference, compass, extent, girth, periphery, range, scope, sphere), �'ריפ�" (scouring, sweeping), טוח (range), טאטוא (sweeping), טאטא, � צחון �'מור. (various references)

Hungarian

söprés (scavenging, sweeping), söpör (beat, beaten, scavenge, to beat, to tool along, to tool down), áradás (flash flood, flood, flush, high water, spate, swelling). (various references)

Indonesian

sikatan (abuse, torment, torture), usapan (chuck), menyapu (wipe), membujur (lie alongside, oval, stretch). (various references)

Inuktitut

saniqluni (to sweep). (various references)

Irish

scuab (brush). (various references)

Italian

spazzare (sweep up), scopare (shag). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

スーパー受信機 (soup, souvenir, souvenir shop, Sufi, suite, superheterodyne receiver, superviser, sweeper, sweet, sweet corn, sweet home, sweet melon, sweet pea, sweet potato, sweet spot, sweetheart, Swiss, Swissrama, switch, switchback, switch-hitter, switching, Switzerland), スイング戦略 (sway, Sweden, Sweden relay, swimming, swing, swing strategy, switch). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

スイープ , スウィープ . (various references)

Kongo

ku-kusuna (to sweep). (various references)

Korean 

청소 (Cleaning, mopping). (various references)

Macedonian

brishe (to sweep). (various references)

Manx

skeabeyder (brusher, carpet-sweeper, sweeper), skeabey (brush, brush over, brush up, brushing, drift, sweeping), sceau (grimace, overhang, quick look, slant), lhomey (divest, draw, draw as sword, emergence, lead, show up, stripping, uncover), builley (bash, beat, beat as pulse, bump, cadence, cadence of voice, cast, choosing, clap, fervour, fit, frenzy, hit, impact, knock, madness, pulsate, pulsation, punch, slam, slap, strike, stroke, thump, toot, toot on horn, whack). (various references)

Maori

tahi-a (to sweep). (various references)

Maya

miist (to sweep). (various references)

Papago

wosun (to sweep). (various references)

Papiamen

bari. (various references)

Pig Latin

eepsway.(various references)

Portuguese

varrer (broom, brush, clean, scavenge, wipe out), varredura (scan). (various references)

Provencal

escobar (to sweep). (various references)

Romanian

strãbate (cover, cross, do, perambulate, permeate, pervade, sail, walk), spãla (bathe, clean, fade, flush, irrigate, launder, lave, mop, mop up, pan, slush, stream, wash, wash up), se întinde (elongate, extend, lie down, make, range, reach, recline, recoil, run, set off, spindle, sprawl, spread, stretch), mãtura (broom, brush away), şterge (abrade, annex, annihilate, annul, blot out, bunk, cancel, clean, cop, crib, decamp, deface, delete, dim, do a bunk, dry, dull, efface, erase, expunge, filch, guy, make away, make off, mop, obliterate, pack off, pack one's traps, pop off, quit, raze, remove, scratch, shrink away, strike out, vanish, wipe), bãtaie (battue, beat, beating, blow, box, bursting, close, concussion, cudgeling, cuff, cuffing, drubbing, dusting, fight, fighting, flogging, fray, lacing, licking, Pat, patter, pattering, percussion, pick, range, rattle, row, run, scramble, scrap, scuffle, set to, shot, slap, slapping, stroke, thrashing, throbbing, thud, thump, toll, tussle, warming), baleia (scan), braţ (arm, armful, brace, channel, fathom, hand, jib, lever, limb, offshoot, strength, upper arm, upper-arm, whip), câştiga (acquire, bear away, bear off, carry, carry off, clean, come by, conciliate, conquer, convert, draw the winner, earn, find, gain, gain smb. over, make, obtain, overcome, purchase, score, steal, take the cake, win), cot (bend, crack, crook, cubit, curvature, curve, elbow, Ell, knee, knuckle, loop, meander, turn, turning, twist, winding), curburã (bend, bent, buckle, camber, crack, crook, curvature, curve, flexion, flexure), întindere (area, compass, expanse, expansion, extension, extent, field, flatting, length, measure, pull up, reach, scope, space, spread, stretch, stretching, surface, width), loviturã (attack, bang, bat, beat, beating, blow, box, bump, burglary, butt, calamity, cant, clap, clip, coup, cuff, dash, drive, fib, flap, go, heading, hit, hunch, hurt, jab, jolt, kick, knock, lick, master stroke, pelt, push, round, set back, shack, shock, shot, slash, sling, smack, smash, stab, stick, strike, stroke, thrust), zbura (career, dart, dash, flash, flee, fleet, flight, flit, fly, fly out, hover, sail, slip, tower), mãturare, mãturat, rotire (gyration, spin, turn, wheel, whirl), trece repede (fleet, jump, slip), vislã lungã, goni (banish, career, chase, course, dash, discard, dismiss, dispel, drive, flap away, Hunt, pack off, send, send away, shoo, start). (various references)

Romansch

scuar (to sweep). (various references)

Romany

shoolav� v (to sweep). (various references)

Ruanda

gukubura (to sweep). (various references)

Russian 

сметать (sweep away), размах (range, reach, span, spread, swing), чистка (cleaning, purge, scour, shake up), охватывать (carry away, comprise, cover, embrace, encircle, encompass, range over), охват (coverage, envelopment, flanker), мести (broom, swept), проноситься (fly, run, slide by, whirl), пределы (metes and bounds, range), подметать, движение (gait, locomotion, motion, move, movement, process, service, stir, traffic, travel). (various references)

Samoan

e salu (to sweep). (various references)

Scottish

sguaib, sguab (a broom or besom, besom, brush). (various references)

Sepedi

swiela (to sweep). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zamah (elan, stroke, swing, whisk, zest), krstariti (cruise, prowl), domet (range), brisati (erase, mop), čistiti metlom, čišćenje (cleaning, cleansing, cleanup, defecation, purification, sweeping), đeram (shadoof). (various references)

Shona

-tsvaira (to sweep). (various references)

Spanish

barrer (broom, dispel, live down, rake, scavenge, sweep away). (various references)

Sranan

sibi, figi. (various references)

Swazi

kú-shanyéla (to sweep). (various references)

Swedish

sopa (broom, scavenge), svepa (down, knock back, lap, lay out, shroud, swill, wrap), svep (whisk), sotare (chimney sweep, chimney-sweep), drag (draft, draught, draw, feature, move, odor, odour, pull, strain, streak, stroke, touch, trait, tug, vein, whiff). (various references)

Thai

เคลื่อนไปอย่างรว�"เร็ว, พั�"พาเอาไป, ชนะท่วมท้น, การเลี้ยวโค้ง, การกวา�" (sweeping), การมีชัยอย่างท่วมท้น, กวา�" (brush, rake in), คนกวา�"ปล่องไฟ, ขอบเขต (border, boundary, circuit, end, extent, limit, orbit, reach, scope, tether). (various references)

Turkish

salınarak geçmek, süpürüp atmak (sweep away, sweep off), süpürme, süpürmek (brush, give smth. a sweep, sweep up, whisk), sürüklemek (blow away, drag, drag along, drift, eat at, eat away, Hale, incline, lug, make leeway, pluck, schlep, schlepp, sweep before one, trail, train, tug, waft, wash away, wash off), salınmak (balance, oscillate, roll, swing), sert esmek, silip süpürmek (clean out, dispatch, gobble, gobble up, mop up, polish off, punish, put away), silip süpürme, sürükleme, üzerinde gezinmek, hepsini alma, hızla yayılmak, geniş alan (expanse), ezip geçmek (beat all hollow), etki alanı (circle, demesne, incidence, orbit, radius), önüne katmak (drive, sweep before one), azametle yürümek (flounce, stalk), hepsini almak, baca temizleyicisi (chimney sweep), ortadan kaldırmak (abolish, annihilate, blot out, charm away, clear away, clear off, do away with, extinguish, hide from view, iron out, kill, make away with, put away, put out of sight, raze, remove, suppress, sweep away, take away), dönemeç (bend, curve, elbow, hook, turning, turnout, twist, wind, winding, zag), erim (compass, radius, range, reach, shot, stage), kıvrılmak (be twisted, bend, crisp, curl, curl up, frizz, frizzle, huddle up, meander, snuggle, squirm, tuck, tuck up, tuck up one's legs, twine itself, twist, twist about, wiggle, wind, wriggle, wriggle about), kıvrım (bend, convolution, crease, Crimp, curve, flection, flexion, fold, frizz, hook, meander, plait, plat, sinuosity, twine, twirl, twist, undulation, volute), kerata (beggar, bootjack, rascal, rogue, scalawag, scallawag, shoehorn), mayın tarama, çıkrık (sheave, spinning wheel, winder, winding wheel, windlass), ocakçı, uzamak (augment, continue, draw out, elongate, extend, grow longer, hold over, lengthen, linger, pull out, scat, stretch), rezil (abject, contemptible, crud, dirty, dishonorable, dishonourable, disreputable, flagitious, flagrant, groveling, grovelling, ignoble, ignominious, infamous, low down, outrageous, raffish, rascal, scandal, scandalous, scoundrel, shameful, sinner, stinking, vile, villainous), tarama (carding, combing, crosshatching, hachure, hachures, hatch, hatching, line drawing, scanning, screening), taramak (card, comb, drag, groom, rake, scan, teasel), tarayıcı (scanner), temizleme (clarification, cleaning, cleanup, clearance, expurgation, purgation, purge, purification, wipe), temizlemek (bump off, clarify, clean, clean out, clean up, cleanse, clear, clear up, decontaminate, depurate, do, do out, erase, excise, expurgate, get rid of, give smth. a sweep, gut, houseclean, mop up, purge, purify, rid, rub out, scavenge, swab down, swob down, tidy out, wipe away, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up), mayın taramak. (various references)

Turkmen 

syrmak (shave), sьpьrmek (wipe), sьbcelemek, togalanmak (move). (various references)

Ukrainian

сажотрус (chimney sweep), тралити (trawl), вимітання, згрібати (rake up, scoop in, scoop up, shovel), замазура (piggy-wiggy), підмітати, підмітальник вулиць (street sweeper), проводити розвідування. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự lướt đoạn cong (swept), đường cong tầm (swept). (various references)

Welsh

ysgubwr (sweeper), ysgubo. (various references)

Yucatec

miistik. (various references)

Zulu

-shanela. (various references)

ablata, ablatas, ablati, ablatis, ablatisque, ablato, ablatum, ablatus, abstulerant, abstuleris, abstulero, abstulerunt, abstuleruntque, abstuli, abstulissent, abstulisti, abstulit, aufer, auferam, auferamini, auferant, auferas, auferat, auferatis, auferatur, auferemini, auferendam, auferendo, auferens, auferent, auferentem, auferentes, auferentesque, auferenti, auferentur, auferes, auferet, auferetis, auferetur, auferre, auferrent, auferres, auferret, auferretur, auferri, aufers, aufert, auferte, aufertis, auferto, aufertur, auferuntur, aversa, aversae, aversi, aversum, aversus, conversa, conversae, conversi, conversique, conversum, conversus, conversusque, everrit, versa, versae, versaque, versi, versis, versos, versum, versumque, versus. (various references)

fegen. (various references)

swapan, swifan. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "sweep": sweepback, sweepbacks, sweeper, sweepers, sweepier, sweepiest, sweeping, sweepingly, sweepingness, sweepingnesses, sweepings, sweeps, sweepstake, sweepstakes, sweepy. (additional references)

Words ending with "sweep": peesweep, upsweep. (additional references)

Words containing "sweep": minesweeper, minesweepers, minesweeping, minesweepings, peesweeps, upsweeping, upsweeps. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Sweep" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sbep, sdep, sfep, sjep, skeep, smep, sqep, svep, swea, sweap, swec, swee, sweed, sweel, sweem, sween, sweer, swei, Sweif, swek, swep, swepe, swy, sxep, syep, tweep. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: weeps.

-1 letter: ewes, pees, pews, seep, spew, weep, wees.

-2 letters: ewe, pee, pes, pew, see, sew, wee.

-3 letters: es, pe, we.

+1 letter: pesewa, pewees, spewed, spewer, sweeps, sweepy, wheeps.

+2 letters: beweeps, nephews, pawnees, peewees, peewits, pesewas, pewters, spewers, sweeper, upsweep, weepers, weepies.

+3 letters: ekpweles, empowers, newspeak, outweeps, palewise, peepshow, peesweep, pigweeds, pinweeds, previews, repowers, snapweed, speedway, stepwise, sumpweed, sweepers, sweepier, sweeping, sweetsop, upsweeps, weepiest, weepings, wheeples, whoopees.

+4 letters: hempweeds, knapweeds, newspaper, newspeaks, peepshows, peesweeps, peetweets, pewterers, piecewise, pinwheels, pokeweeds, pondweeds, powderers, powerless, preshowed, prewashed, prewashes, prowesses, showpiece, sideswipe, sleepwalk, sleepwear, snapweeds, speedways, speedwell, spiderweb, sumpweeds, superwave, superwide, superwife, sweepback, sweepiest, sweepings, sweetshop, sweetsops, twopences, upswelled, waveshape, whispered, whisperer, winepress.