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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

sweep up en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (ambitransitive) To clean by sweeping.
    • I'll wash the floor after sweeping up.
    • We swept up the leaves which had blown into the shop.
  2. (transitive) To transport to shore by waves.
    • 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:
  3. (passive, transitive, usually) to overwhelm, to cause to become overly involved in.
    • We got swept up in the excitement.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
sweeping up Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
swept up Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
swept up Tense=Past lexicographic
sweeps up Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Translations (1)

de zusammenkehren (clean by sweeping)