Sweeping

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Having wide-ranging influence or effect: sweeping changes.
  • adj. Moving in or as if in a wide curve: a sweeping gesture; a sweeping glance.
  • adj. Indiscriminate; wholesale: sweeping generalizations.
  • adj. Overwhelming; complete: a sweeping victory.
  • n. The action of one that sweeps.
  • n. Things swept up; refuse.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Present participle of sweep.
  • n. An instance of sweeping.
  • n. The activity of sweeping.
  • adj. wide, broad, affecting many things
  • adj. Completely overwhelming
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Cleaning off surfaces, or cleaning away dust, dirt, or litter, as a broom does; moving with swiftness and force; carrying everything before it; including in its scope many persons or things
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of one who or that which sweeps, in any sense; also, the result of such act.
  • n. plural Whatever is gathered together by or as by sweeping; rubbish; refuse.
  • n. Specifically— In stereotyping and electrotyping, the bits of metal thrown on the floor by sawing- and planing-machines.
  • n. In printing, the waste paper swept up from the floor of a press-room.
  • n. In bookbinding, the bits of gold-leaf gathered up by the cotton cloth that is used to remove the surplus gold of a gilded book.
  • Carrying everything before it; overwhelming: as, a sweeping majority.
  • Including or comprehending many individuals or particulars in a single act or assertion; comprehensive; all-including: as, a sweeping charge; a sweeping declaration.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the act of cleaning with a broom
  • adj. ignoring distinctions
  • adj. taking in or moving over (or as if over) a wide area; often used in combination
    • Equivalent
    indiscriminate    broad    wide   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    cleanup    cleaning    cleansing   
    Cross Reference
    sweeping resolution   
    Verb Stem
    sweep   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    beeping    bleeping    creeping    heaping    keeping   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    fowl-house    dramaturgy    tramp    astrocytoma    demagoguery   
     
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