sweeped

Verb

sweep (third-person singular simple present sweeps, present participle sweeping, simple past and past participle swept)

1. (transitive) 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. (intransitive) To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
   • The wind sweeps across the plain.

   Synonyms:

   swing

3. (transitive) To search (a place) methodically.
4. (figuratively, intransitive) To travel quickly.
   • Drifting thus, we made fast time down the bank through Cove Bay, and at 72 m.p.h. came sweeping round the curve past Girdleness light house, and so to the first sight of Aberdeen itself.1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 9

   Synonyms:

   They've swept to power with an overwhelming majority.

5. To play a sweep shot.
6. To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.

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