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Sweep up

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To clean by sweeping. ambitransitive

    "I'll wash the floor after sweeping up."

  2. 2
    take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own wordnet
  3. 3
    To transport to shore by waves. transitive

    "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"

  4. 4
    force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action wordnet
  5. 5
    to overwhelm, to cause to become overly involved in. passive, transitive, usually

    "We got swept up in the excitement."

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