Sweeping

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Having wide-ranging influence or effect. adjective

Moving in or as if in a wide curve. adjective

Indiscriminate; wholesale. adjective

Overwhelming; complete. adjective

The action of one that sweeps. noun

Things swept up; refuse. noun

Carrying everything before it; overwhelming: as, a sweeping majority.

Including or comprehending many individuals or particulars in a single act or assertion; comprehensive; all-including: as, a sweeping charge; a sweeping declaration.

The act of one who or that which sweeps, in any sense; also, the result of such act. noun

Plural Whatever is gathered together by or as by sweeping; rubbish; refuse. noun

Specifically— In stereotyping and electrotyping, the bits of metal thrown on the floor by sawing- and planing-machines. noun

In printing, the waste paper swept up from the floor of a press-room. noun

In bookbinding, the bits of gold-leaf gathered up by the cotton cloth that is used to remove the surplus gold of a gilded book. noun

Cleaning off surfaces, or cleaning away dust, dirt, or litter, as a broom does; moving with swiftness and force; carrying everything before it; including in its scope many persons or things adjective

Present participle of sweep. verb

An instance of sweeping. noun

The activity of sweeping. noun

Wide, broad, affecting many things adjective

Completely overwhelming adjective

The act of cleaning with a broom noun

To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.

To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.

To search (a place) methodically.

To travel quickly.

To play a sweep shot.

To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.

To move something in a long sweeping motion, as a broom.

To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.

To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.

To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.

To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.

To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.

To strike with a long stroke.

To row with one oar to either the port or starboard side.

To draw or drag something over.

To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.

(including) to vacuum a carpet or rug

The act of sweeping multiple girls off their feet. Often times, the sweeper will be labeled as one who is very desired by the opposite sex, and sometimes even the same sex. It is common for a male sweeper to be have a hot bod, be good at guitar, be in a band, or be cute. Urban Dictionary

Rowing w/ one oar, instead of two (sculling) Urban Dictionary

Hot boxing Urban Dictionary

The art of sweeping one under the rug after an error or bout of self-ownage. Urban Dictionary

Sweepings: The scraps, leavings, hand-me-downs, things tossed aside as the quality stuff is grabbed up at sales. Junk. Urban Dictionary

In sports (basketball and baseball, mainly) when one team wins every game in a series. Urban Dictionary

A time of the year the world of television programs where the virgins become sluts, the straits become gay, the mild-mannered become basket-cases, likeable characters turn out to be evil and/or die, couples cheat on eachother, the selfless turn selfish, someone gets pregnant, and just about any other thing that the creators can think of to boost their show's ratings enough to avoid getting cancelled by the network executives. Often as soon as sweeps week is over, all these elements are suddenly written out or forgotten. Urban Dictionary

A Style of picking, used on the guitar. You sweep your pick across the string, most of the time producing a triplet sound. Usually used to sweep arpeggios. Urban Dictionary

The act of a bird shaking it's tail feathers. Urban Dictionary

(n.) a raid by the police Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to sweeping:
sweeping, weeping, sleeping, seeping, steeping, sweeting, swelling, keeping, seeking, steering, seeing, creeping, seeding, seeming, sweating, swearing, sneering, weeding, stepping, swapping, sheeting, speeding, swooping, sheeling, peeping, sneezing, weening, swealing, swerving, swiping, bleeping, sleeting, sleeking, steeling, weeing, sheering, steeving, sleeving, seeling, swamping, tweeting, tweening, beeping, steening, steepling, swopping, cheeping, skelping, sweepings, sleepin, tweezing, deeping, sheening, speering, beweeping, speeling, weeting, skeeting, upsweeping.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word sweeping:
vistas, broom, sweep, swept, mines, staircase, curves, views, curve, changes, bergen, cleaning, strings, powers, elimination, sentences, yankees, mandatory, reform, gear, epic, sox, legislation, aside, mine.

Words that rhyme with sweeping:
housekeeping, recordkeeping, keeping, safekeeping, bookkeeping, creeping, weeping, sleeping, reaping, seeping, peacekeeping, leaping, peeping, steeping, cleping, heaping, beekeeping, bleeping, peiping, beeping, scorekeeping, out or keeping, keep ing, li ping, sleep ing.

Adjectives that are often used to describe sweeping:
tomb, street, mine, first, constant, grave, chimney.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective sweeping:
changes, statement, change, generalization, generalizations, reforms, movement, glance, curves, statements, conclusion, claims, measure, claim, conclusions, staircase, panorama, majority, measures, transformation, blow, survey, gesture, generalisation, stroke, vision, train, charges, brush, declaration, denial, reform, wind, decision, proposal, vista, proposals, process, look, operations, powers, plan, machines, circle, provisions, generalisations, critique, purge, legislation, rule, view, machine, sentence, scale, drive, lawn, definition, remark, mandate, proposition, decree, impact, campaign, demands, authority, implications, assumptions, scope, principle, provision, concessions, plans, program, blast, verdict, grant, victory, consequences, expanse, assertions, move, opinion, roof, strokes, curtsey, lashes, alterations, sound, condemnation, doctrine, attacks.

Consonant match to sweeping:
swapping, swooping, swiping, swopping.

Words that sound like sweeping:
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