sweep sb along
— phrasal verb with sweep uk/swiːp/us/swiːp/verb swept, swept
If a feeling or someone's behaviour sweeps you along, it makes you feel very enthusiastic about an activity and very involved in it:
We were swept along by her eloquence.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Making people excited and interested
- absorbed
- animate
- be sb's bag idiom
- breathe (new) life into sth idiom
- captivate
- capture
- catch
- enthuse
- entrance 1
- intoxicate
- intrigue
- occupy
- pulse
- pump
- pump sb up
- reinvigorate
- swing
- talk sth up
- whip sth up
- wow factor
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