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Definition of Swept
1. Adjective. Possessing sweep. "The sleek swept wings of the plane"
Definition of Swept
1. Verb. (past of sweep) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Swept
1. sweep [v] - See also: sweep
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swept
Literary usage of Swept
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"Suggestions may be made that the act of the United States in paying for the value
of the steamboat after she was swept off by the ice freshet and destroyed ..."
2. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1873)
"... everything was swept away by a larger scheme, in its extent and its danger
more swept away suitable to the wild and hazardous enterprises of that prodi- ..."
3. Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854)
"... Cotton-trees nodded their shadowy crests, they swept with the current, Then
emerged into broad lagoons, where silvery sand-bars Lay in the stream, ..."
4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"Suggestions may be made that the act of the United States in paying for the value
of the steamboat after she was swept off by the ice freshet and destroyed ..."
5. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1873)
"... everything was swept away by a larger scheme, in its extent and its danger
more swept away suitable to the wild and hazardous enterprises of that prodi- ..."
6. Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854)
"... Cotton-trees nodded their shadowy crests, they swept with the current, Then
emerged into broad lagoons, where silvery sand-bars Lay in the stream, ..."
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