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Definition of Sweep up
1. Verb. Force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action. "Don't drag me into this business"
Generic synonyms: Involve
Derivative terms: Embroilment
2. Verb. Take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own. "They adopted the Jewish faith"
Specialized synonyms: Fasten On, Hook On, Latch On, Seize On, Take Up
Generic synonyms: Accept
Derivative terms: Adoption, Embrace
Definition of Sweep up
1. Verb. (ambitransitive) To clean by sweeping. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) to transport to shore by waves. ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive) to overwhelm ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sweep Up
Literary usage of Sweep up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"The evidence was conflicting as to what the duties of plaintiff's Intestate were,
whether or not he was to sweep up the oil or not, or whether or not his ..."
2. Smiling 'round the World by Marshall Pinckney Wilder (1908)
"... Narrows—The Goddess Waves Her Torch at Us—We sweep up to the Dock—Smiling
Faces and Outstretched Hands—Dear Old New York— Glorious America—Beloved Home! ..."
3. American Foundry Practice: Treating of Loam, Dry Sand and Green Sand by Thomas Dyson West (1882)
"This thickness is generally formed with green sand, keeping the sweep up, so as
to sweep from -fa" to |" thicker than the casting required. ..."
4. Chief Contemporary Dramatists, Second Series: Eighteen Plays from the Recent by Thomas Herbert Dickinson (1921)
"See to it that you sweep up. [Exit to the entry LUE preceded by the BARON.] ACTOR.
[Crawls down from the stove.] I must not inhale dust. ..."
5. Chief Contemporary Dramatists, Second Series: Eighteen Plays from the Recent by Thomas Herbert Dickinson (1921)
"See to it that you sweep up. [Exit to the entry LUE preceded by the BARON.] ACTOR.
[Crawls down from the stove.] I must not inhale dust. ..."
6. Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the Revenues by Great Britain (1864)
"He had to sweep up the room, which took up a good deal of time. 2875. The seniors
all this time being there ?—Being in the room, or else in their little ..."
7. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"The evidence was conflicting as to what the duties of plaintiff's Intestate were,
whether or not he was to sweep up the oil or not, or whether or not his ..."
8. Smiling 'round the World by Marshall Pinckney Wilder (1908)
"... Narrows—The Goddess Waves Her Torch at Us—We sweep up to the Dock—Smiling
Faces and Outstretched Hands—Dear Old New York— Glorious America—Beloved Home! ..."
9. American Foundry Practice: Treating of Loam, Dry Sand and Green Sand by Thomas Dyson West (1882)
"This thickness is generally formed with green sand, keeping the sweep up, so as
to sweep from -fa" to |" thicker than the casting required. ..."
10. Chief Contemporary Dramatists, Second Series: Eighteen Plays from the Recent by Thomas Herbert Dickinson (1921)
"See to it that you sweep up. [Exit to the entry LUE preceded by the BARON.] ACTOR.
[Crawls down from the stove.] I must not inhale dust. ..."
11. Chief Contemporary Dramatists, Second Series: Eighteen Plays from the Recent by Thomas Herbert Dickinson (1921)
"See to it that you sweep up. [Exit to the entry LUE preceded by the BARON.] ACTOR.
[Crawls down from the stove.] I must not inhale dust. ..."
12. Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the Revenues by Great Britain (1864)
"He had to sweep up the room, which took up a good deal of time. 2875. The seniors
all this time being there ?—Being in the room, or else in their little ..."
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