sweep up
Verb
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Verb
- (ambitransitive) To clean by sweeping.
- I'll wash the floor after sweeping up.
- We swept up the leaves which had blown into the shop.
- (transitive) to transport to shore by waves.
- 1897, Edmondo De Amicis, Maria Hornor Lansdale, Morocco its people and places
- The only thing that frees the country from this curse is a favorable wind; this blows them into the sea, where they drown and are swept up on the beach for days afterwards in great heaps
- 1897, Edmondo De Amicis, Maria Hornor Lansdale, Morocco its people and places
- (transitive, usually passive) to overwhelm, to cause to become overly involved in.
- We got swept up in the excitement.
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