1. broom
noun. ['ˈbruːm'] a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle.
Synonyms
- cleaning equipment
- whisk broom
- push broom
- cleaning device
- besom
- broomstick
- broom handle
- whisk
Antonyms
- superior
- stay in place
- colorlessness
- attend to
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Words that Rhyme with Broom
- exhume
- reassume
- presume
- perfume
- maktoum
- legroom
- laplume
- khartoum
- deblum
- costume
- consume
- resume
- kaboom
- entomb
- abloom
- vroom
- plume
- kume
- hume
- groome
- groom
- gloom
- fume
- flume
- crume
- croom
- blume
- blum
- bloom
- assume
Example sentences of the word broom
1. Noun, singular or mass
Vacuum the powder or remove it with a small broom or straight edge.
Quotes containing the word broom
1. Eric moved the broom experimentally and made an attempt to sweep the glass into the pan while it lay in the middle of the floor. Of course, the pan slid away. Eric scowled.I'd finally found something Eric did poorly.
- Charlaine Harris, Dead as a Doornail
2. It was a year for the ages, like 79, like 1346, to name just a few. Forget the scythe, Goddamn it, I needed a broom or a mop. And I needed a vacation.
- Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
2. dyers-broom
noun. small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental.
Synonyms
- broom
- genus Genista
- whin
- dyer's greenweed
- woodwaxen
- woadwaxen
- dyeweed
- Genista tinctoria
- greenweed
3. broom-weed
noun. annual of southwestern United States having rigid woody branches with sticky foliage and yellow flowers.
Synonyms
- Gutierrezia
- matchweed
- broomweed
- genus Gutierrezia
- matchbush
4. dyer's-broom
noun. small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental.
Synonyms
- broom
- genus Genista
- whin
- dyer's greenweed
- woodwaxen
- woadwaxen
- dyeweed
- Genista tinctoria
- greenweed
5. broom
noun. ['ˈbruːm'] any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers.
Synonyms
- Genista anglica
- Spanish gorse
- Papilionoideae
- shrub
- Genista hispanica
- greenweed
- dyer's-broom
- weaver's broom
- bush
- green broom
- broom tree
- whin
- petty whin
- Spartium junceum
- Scotch broom
- dyeweed
- Genista tinctoria
- Cytisus scoparius
- weeping tree broom
- white Spanish broom
- Cytisus albus
- subfamily Papilionoideae
- common broom
- white broom
- dyer's greenweed
- woodwaxen
- Cytisus multiflorus
- woadwaxen
- Spanish broom
Antonyms
- victory
- continue
- start
- middle
6. broom
verb. ['ˈbruːm'] finish with a broom.
Antonyms
- imperfection
7. broom
noun. ['ˈbruːm'] common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere.
Synonyms
- Scots heather
- genus Calluna
- ling
- heath
- Calluna vulgaris
- Calluna
Antonyms
- stand still
- dirty
- lose
- begin
8. broom
verb. ['ˈbruːm'] sweep with a broom or as if with a broom.
Synonyms
- wipe
- sweep