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sweeps someone off their feet

sweeps someone off their feet is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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...

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Sweeps someone off their feet is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sweep someone off their feet.

Words near sweeps someone off their feet in the dictionary

  1. sweeps along
  2. sweeps aside
  3. sweeps away
  4. sweeps in
  5. sweeps out
  6. sweeps someone off their feet
  7. sweeps something under the rug
  8. sweeps stunt
  9. sweeps stunts
  10. sweeps the board
  11. sweeps the deck

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