Meaning of sweep up | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To clean by sweeping.
   ambitransitive
2. To transport to shore by waves.
   transitive
3. to overwhelm, to cause to become overly involved in.
   passive, transitive, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“I'll wash the floor after sweeping up.”

“We swept up the leaves which had blown into the shop.”

“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”

“We got swept up in the excitement.”

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