sweep /swēp/

1. To pass swiftly or forcibly, esp with a swinging movement or in a curve
2. To move with trailing or flowing drapery, hence with pomp, indignation, etc
3. To extend in a long curve
4. To range systematically or searchingly
5. To play a sweep stroke (cricket)
6. To row with sweeps

1. To pass something brushingly over
2. To elicit by so doing (poetic)
3. To pass brushingly
4. To wipe, clean, move or remove with a broom
5. To carry along or off with a long brushing stroke, swiftly and/or with force
6. To wipe out or remove at a stroke (often with away or up)
7. To perform with a sweeping movement
8. To trail with a curving movement
9. To drag as with a net or rope
10. To search
11. To describe, generate or swing through (eg a curve, angle or area)
12. To range or move over exploratively or searchingly
13. To play a sweep stroke at (cricket)
14. To row with sweeps

1. An act of sweeping
2. A swinging movement, swing
3. An onrush, surge
4. Impetus
5. A clearance
6. Range, compass
7. A curved stair
8. A curved drive in front of a building
9. That which is swept, sweepings
10. A sweepstake
11. A search
12. A pump-handle
13. A long oar
14. A sail of a windmill
15. A wire drag used in searching for shoals, mines, etc
16. A chimney-sweep
17. A cricket stroke in which the batter goes down on one knee to play the ball to the legside with a horizontal bat
18. A periodic survey of the audience ratings of television stations, used in fixing rates for advertising (N American)
19. A blackguard (old slang)
20. Sweepback (aeronautics)

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