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View definitions for swept

swept

verb as in brush off, away

verb as in fly, glide

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It was love baked into grilled cheeses and currents of laughter that swept through the house during unexpected moments of long quiet.

“A guiding principle for us was capturing the energy of what it feels like to be a teenager and get really swept up in something.”

Although the final vote totals will be fairly close, Trump won all seven key battleground states, and swept the "blue wall" across the Midwest.

From Salon

Elsewhere, rescue teams searching for the bodies of two young brothers who were swept away in the Valencia floods two weeks ago said their bodies had been found.

From BBC

The so-called ‘haboob’ swept through the valley on Monday afternoon from about 1:30 to 4 p.m., said Emily Wilson, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service at Hanford.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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