sweep

v

1.Often sweep away or out

whisk, brush, vacuum; clean, clean up, spruce up, tidy up, clear out, remove the dirt from; dust, wipe, swipe, swab, mop, scrub.

2. force, push, drive, blow, drift, carry, move; draw, pull, stroke, paint; clear, open, make a path through.

3. pan, scour, comb, winnow, sift through, rout through, search through; drag across, flow along, stream along, trail over, pass over; graze, brush against, rub against, glance, touch, hit; shave, skim, scrape, chafe, abrade.

4. curve, round, arch, bow, bend, Archit. embow; compass, go or move around or round, lap, circle, circuit, circumambulate, surround, encircle, encompass; extend, range, stretch, reach, go; span, cover, include, comprise.

5.Usu. sweep along or through

scurry, hurry, rush, run, haste, hasten, career, hie, hightail it, scamper, Inf. skedaddle; dash, dart, shoot, tear, sprint, race, fly, go like the wind, streak, bolt; whip along, spank, zoom, whoosh, whiz, go like lightning, Sl. zing, Sl. zip, Sl. smoke; swoop down upon, blitz, charge, rampage, tear, stampede, rip.

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6. stroke, swipe, move, movement, motion, action.

7. drive, thrust, push; swoop, fell swoop, blow, attack, blitz; charge, rampage, stampede.

8. curvature, curvation, roundness, roundedness, bending, flexure; incurvation, incurvature, arcuation, Pathol. cyrtosis; curve, bend, arch, arc, vault, Archit. extrados; incurve, camber, crescent, lunule, lune, menscus, half-moon, horseshoe, U.S. oxbow; lap, round, turn, loop, circle, circuit, cycle, orbit, revolution.

9. compass, swing, scope, range, breadth, width; reach, stretch, spread, span, extent, area; space, room, play, elbowroom.