(v. t.) To overpower, as with heat; to cause to faint; to swelter.
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Swept
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Sweep
() imp. & p. p. of Sweep.
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(1) Former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morell, also weighed in for Clinton in a New York Times opinion piece on Friday, declaring: “Donald J Trump is not only unqualified for the job, but he may well pose a threat to our national security.” Republicans stumbling from the wreckage of a terrible week are worrying about how to contain the damage further down the ballot paper in November as people running for seats in Congress and at state level risk being swept away.
(2) In early 2012, the rebels swept aside government troops in the north and started imposing sharia law.
(3) When, in stoppage time, the 33-year-old striker swept a first-time shot home any lingering Villa optimism was extinguished.
(4) Ferguson said she agreed with him and said his comments were "very heartfelt and honest", but the royal remarks swept around the world.
(5) Alexis Sánchez slipped a pass through to Welbeck, the flag stayed down, Speroni saved and Giroud swept the rebound into the empty net.
(6) Now they await the results of the American League Championship Series to see whether this year's World Series will be a rematch of 2004, when the Cardinals were swept by the curse-reversing Boston Red Sox, or 2006, when the Cardinals defeated the Detroit Tigers and became one of the worst teams to win the World Series in MLB history .
(7) But if states cannot trust that their citizens' personal data – as well as sensitive commercial and government information – will not be swept up in a gigantic global surveillance operation, this may be a price they are willing to pay.
(8) Rodgers' team took the lead from their first corner when Suárez – pelted with coins from the away section that he handed to referee Martin Atkinson – swept to the near post.
(9) The former director of public prosecutions Lord Macdonald warned courts risked being swept up in a"collective loss of proportion".
(10) Five years ago, the main opposition coalition swept the seats in Addis Ababa, but this time Medrek on managed to win a single seat there, and none in the rest of the country.
(11) Others are taking the rally at face value and planning to turn up with banners proclaiming themselves part of the reasonable majority, liberal or conservative, against the particular brand of insanity that has swept America since Barack Obama entered the White House.
(12) Fukushima is home to six nuclear reactors, three of which were running when the giant tsunami swept across the site on 11 March 2011.
(13) Sixty-one headteachers wrote to the papers in support a couple of days later, but they were swept away by a campaign notable for the ugliness it permitted in some of its readers.
(14) August 1995 After poorly contested elections, the EPRDF swept to power; the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia was proclaimed, and Meles became Ethiopia's first prime minister.
(15) Last year, more than 6,000 people were killed as floods and landslides swept through Uttarakhand during the monsoon season.
(16) The midfielder swept over an inviting cross for Ings to head home from close range.
(17) Bake Off swept away all the opposition last night, with more than twice the 4.1 million viewers (17.1%) who watched ITV's Uefa Champions League coverage of Arsenal's 2-1 defeat by Borussia Dortmund between 7.30pm and 10pm.
(18) Eighteen-year-old Zhu Guilin said he usually preferred pop music, but relished competing with his class in the red song competitions that swept Chongqing at Bo's behest.
(19) Boag's theory for the collection efficiency of a small ionisation chamber in a pulsed swept beam is generalised by taking chamber size into account.
(20) After his story swept across the internet and drew messages of support from tech companies and the US president , Ahmed told reporters outside his home on Wednesday: “I built the clock to impress my teacher, but when I showed it to her she thought it was a threat to her.