sweep

About 5.77 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.

   to sweep a floor, the street, or a chimney

2. verb To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.

   The wind sweeps across the plain.

3. verb To search (a place) methodically.
4. verb To travel quickly.

   They've swept to power with an overwhelming majority.

5. verb To play a sweep shot.
6. verb To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
7. verb To move something in a long sweeping motion, as a broom.
8. verb To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.

Similar words

sweep up swing tangle embroil slam broom brush chimneysweep chimneysweeper traverse

Often followed by

of the away and over through across up in

Word family

sweeping sweeps swept