Swept

What do we mean by swept?

Preterit and past participle of sweep. noun

Imp. & p. p. of sweep.

Simple past tense and past participle of sweep. verb

Possessing sweep adjective

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

Words that are spelled similarly to swept:
swept, sweet, sweat, sept, wept, slept, swelt, swet, swep, stept, swett, sdept.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word swept:
overboard, rudder, sweep, drowned, fuselage, landslide, trailing, away, sweeping, spurs, wings, fin, yankees, aside, sox, hawks, flood, tornado, floods, destroying, ashore, mets, downstream, straight, debris, wing, flooded, playoff, eventual, mines, nba, rescued, flooding, edges, tail, detroit, tigers, waves, stanley, storm, round, games, streak, winds, edge, inland, clean, destroyed, wave, defending, killing, homes, mounted, winning, giants, across, none, damage, waters, damaged, consecutive, seats, hurricane, losing, angle, rangers.

Words that rhyme with swept:
precept, adept, accept, except, inept, intercept, sept, leapt, kept, crept, wept, yclept, slept, windswept, prepped, stepped, leaped, clept, sidestepped, pepped, overstepped, overslept, schlepped, sept-, hept-.

Adjectives that are often used to describe swept:
plain, wind, wave, linked, general, wistful, line, forward, wild, storm, bare, fair, born, clean, mighty, routed, frequency, sudden, unseen, desolate, deep, wide, fearful, cloud, thundrous.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective swept:
volume, wing, area, wings, channel, frequency, floor, plain, plains, streets, sky, sea, surface, hill, hills, street, ground, back, yard, plateau, shores, beach, deck, areas, road, zone, field, land, slopes, hearth, heights, space, shore, fields, channels, night, island, rocks, trees, beaches, rock, away, coast, country, ridges, place, prairie, spaces, islands, waters, path, sand, ridge, room, mountains, desert, region, valley, seas, places, slope, gain, summit, dunes, platform, city, out, floors, ocean, ice, moors, prairies, bay, paths, waste, forest, house, landscape, earth, hair, regions, town, roads, snow, hold, grass, volumes, darkness, air, signal, oscillator, sands, tree, heath, skies, spot, lake, wastes.

Consonant match to swept:
swapped, swooped, swiped, swopped.

Words that sound like swept:
swept, swapped, swiped, swooped, swopped, sweat, slept, stepped, swet, cept, sept, swett, stept, swep, slipped, sipped, snipped, supped, slipt, swip, swit, syruped, sweet, stopped, sweep, suite, swap, whipped, snapped, swipe, swat, slapped, swoop, stoped, swamped, stooped, sniped, sopt, sapped, steeped, seeped, swot, stuped, swop, sloped, sweatt, swed, souped, swope, stopt, slopped, sopped, snooped, swatt, swete, swape, soaped, swabbed, sweepy, whupped, swoope, swapo, suat, supt, sweb, sapt, swatte, whooped, whopped, swift, skipped, switched, swished, swipper, set, sceptre, sep, septer, scooped, quipped, cet, cep, scoped, sette, septa, sepp, scaped, ceptor, pset, sete, skyped, cette, seppi, seppo, septi, cepa, septs, sepet, septo, seppa.