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# swept

«swept» in Mova's school dictionary: **the past of sweep: cleaned the floor or ground with a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb, past form of sweep (sweep, sweeps, swept, sweeping)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Swept is the past of sweep: cleaned the floor or ground with a brush or broom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swept/#m1)

2) Swept means moved quickly and smoothly, or pushed or carried along with force, like a wave sweeping something away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swept/#m2)

3) Swept can mean spread fast over an area, like news or fire sweeping across a country. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swept/#m3)

4) A team that «swept» won every game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swept/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and chores: «I swept the kitchen floor». In stories and safety: a flood swept away cars; a strong current swept a swimmer out — so swim only between the flags. In news: a storm swept across the country. Phrases: «swept away», «swept up», «swept off your feet» (fell in love quickly).

### examples

- I swept the leaves off the path. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swept/#x1)
- The river swept the bridge away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swept/#x2)
- She swept into the room in a long dress. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swept/#x3)
- The cold wind swept across the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swept/#x4)
- A wave swept his bucket out to sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swept/#x5)
- We swept up all the broken glass carefully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swept/#x6)
- The new game swept through the whole school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swept/#x7)
- Here he swept a path, there he trained a twig. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swept/#x8)

### note

Irregular verb: sweep, swept, swept (not «sweeped»). Similar pattern: keep/kept, sleep/slept, weep/wept. Never walk or drive through floodwater: it can sweep you away.

### In the corpora

- [The African forest buffalo is a smaller, reddish cousin of the savanna buffalo, with swept-back horns that fit dense forest.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/160-the-congo-river/14/)
- [The brook Kishon swept them away, that ancient brook, the brook Kishon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.144/)
- [But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be swept away, both ye and your king.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.300/)
- [Much food is in the tillage of the poor; but there is that is swept away by want of righteousness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.372/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «swept» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swept/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.