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ensweep

ensweep verb: to sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly or to sweep up.

Verb

ensweep (third-person singular simple present ensweeps, present participle ensweeping, simple past and past participle enswept)

  1. (rare, transitive) To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly or to sweep up.
    • A blaze of meteors shoot: ensweeping first
      The lower skiesa. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Autumn”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC

Forms of ensweep

third-person singular presentensweeps
present participleensweeping
past participleenswept
pastenswept

Origin of ensweep

From en- + sweep.

Questions about ensweep

What does ensweep mean?
Ensweep means to sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly or to sweep up.
What part of speech is ensweep?
Ensweep is a verb.
What is the past tense of ensweep?
The past tense of ensweep is enswept.

Words near ensweep in the dictionary

  1. enswathed
  2. enswathement
  3. enswathements
  4. enswathes
  5. enswathing
  6. ensweep
  7. ensweeping
  8. ensweeps
  9. ensweeten
  10. ensweetened
  11. ensweetening

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