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sweeping someone off their feet

sweeping someone off their feet is the present participle and gerund of sweep someone off their feet.

Meaning of sweep someone off their feet

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To seduce someone romantically.
  2. (figuratively) To overwhelm.
    • Am I capable of feeling as strongly as that? But I was absolutely unconscious! I hadn't a phrase to meet it with! I was overcome! I was swept off my feet! I didn't even try, in the dimmest way, to put it down!1918 February (date written), Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Je ne parle pas français”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC...

Questions about sweeping someone off their feet

What is sweeping someone off their feet the present participle and gerund of?
Sweeping someone off their feet is the present participle and gerund of sweep someone off their feet.

Words near sweeping someone off their feet in the dictionary

  1. sweeping along
  2. sweeping aside
  3. sweeping away
  4. sweeping in
  5. sweeping out
  6. sweeping someone off their feet
  7. sweeping something under the rug
  8. sweeping the board
  9. sweeping the deck
  10. sweeping the floor with someone
  11. sweeping up

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