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1. sweep
verb. ['ˈswiːp'] move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions.
Synonyms
- sail
- move
- swan
Antonyms
- unfold
- unmask
- uncover
- undress
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Rhymes with Sweep
- oversleep
- mcsleep
- anandeep
- streep
- phillipe
- felipe
- bopeep
- asleep
- steep
- sleep
- schliep
- griep
- creep
- bleep
- veep
- tepe
- sheep
- sepe
- seipp
- seip
- seep
- riepe
- reep
- reap
- peep
- lepe
- leep
- leap
- kniep
- kneip
How do you pronounce sweep?
Pronounce sweep as swip.
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Sentences with sweep
1. Noun, singular or mass
Plug the other end into the closest outlet that proved non-functional during the previous sweep of the home.
2. Verb, base form
Flip the canvas, cushion or tarp over and sweep away any grass or other debris with a broom.
Quotes about sweep
1. You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.
- Stephen King
2. If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
3. The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.For nothing now can ever come to any good.
- W.H. Auden, Selected Poems
2. sweep
verb. ['ˈswiːp'] sweep across or over.
Synonyms
- move
- sail
Antonyms
- arise
- show
- fall short of
3. sweep
verb. ['ˈswiːp'] sweep with a broom or as if with a broom.
Synonyms
- wipe
- broom
Antonyms
- disentangle
- unsnarl
- untwist
4. sweep
verb. ['ˈswiːp'] force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action.
Synonyms
- drag in
- sweep up
- embroil
- involve
- tangle
Antonyms
- refrain
- put option
- call option
- decrease
5. sweep
noun. ['ˈswiːp'] a wide scope.
Synonyms
- compass
- ambit
- expanse
- orbit
- range
- scope
Antonyms
- open
- beginning
- failure
- complain
6. sweep
verb. ['ˈswiːp'] to cover or extend over an area or time period.
Synonyms
- cover
- continue
- span
- extend
- traverse
Antonyms
- relax
- unstrain
- ebb
- arrive
7. sweep
verb. ['ˈswiːp'] win an overwhelming victory in or on.
Antonyms
- exclude
8. sweep
verb. ['ˈswiːp'] clean by sweeping.
Synonyms
- clean
- broom
Antonyms
- unravel
- unknot
- untwine
9. sweep
verb. ['ˈswiːp'] make a big sweeping gesture or movement.
Synonyms
- manage
- swing out
- wield
- handle
Antonyms
- arrange
- good-natured
- lengthwise
- uncross
10. sweep
noun. ['ˈswiːp'] a movement in an arc.
Synonyms
- motion
- motility
- move
Antonyms
- stay in place
- top out
- fail
- incapability