Synonyms for swept
swɛpt

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1. swept(adj)

   possessing sweep

   "the sleek swept wings of the plane"

   Antonyms:
   unswept

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1. List of paraphrases for "swept":

   shoveled, scanned, stormed, devastated, invaded, overpowered, bulldozed

How to pronounce swept?

Alex

US English

Daniel

British

Karen

Australian

Veena

Indian

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1. Glenn Hollander:

   There's lot of expertise and a lot of history that is going to be lost, a lot of understanding of why the market is doing something, i think open-outcry died because as electronics came in the people who were afraid of them didn't embrace them. And pit traders just got swept away like a tsunami.

2. Coverage Blanton:

   We crossed a certain line the other night, when Trump swept those states, if you were talking about a delegate count where we’re even, and there were a tie issue at stake, yeah, I would probably want to do something for Kasich. But I think we’re out of those woods right now.

3. Ken Campbell:

   The general hypothesis is that - first of all, these monkeys were very small, they’re about the size of a small squirrel with a long tail. So they’re very small and as a consequence their food and water requirements would be much less than if they were very large. So the general hypothesis is that there were monkeys on a river bank. During flood season, trees get swept into the river and carried out to the ocean. As vegetation rafts, [the trees are] carried across on the Atlantic based on wind and current directions. This remains a hypothesis- there’s no proof yet, although the similarities between the monkeys suggests that it did happen.

4. Hans Dieter Poetsch:

   We will be relentless in seeking to establish who was responsible, everything is on the table. Nothing will be swept under the carpet.

5. Thom Tillis:

   This pastor was in the United States after the coup and after Erdogan was rounding up people all across the country, does anybody really believe that he would have traveled back to a country that he felt like he could have been swept up into that? Samuel Brownback, US Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, talks to members of the media outside the prison complex Aliaga, Izmir province, western Turkey, where jailed pastor Andrew Craig Brunson appeared on his trial at a court inside the complex (AP) Meanwhile, the year and a half of imprisonment has taken a personal toll on Brunson and his family.

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