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Sweep [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of sweeping.

2. The compass of a stroke; as a long sweep

3. The compass of any turning body or motion; as the sweep of a door.

4. The compass of any thing flowing or brushing; as, the flood carried away every thing within its sweep

5. Violent and general destruction; as the sweep of an epidemic disease.

6. Direction of any motion not rectilinear; as the sweep of a compass.

7. The mold of a ship when she begins to compass in, at the rung heads; also, any part of a ship shaped by the segment of a circle; as a floor-sweep; a back-sweep, etc.

8. Among refiners of metals, the almost-furnace.

9. Among seamen, a large oar, used to assist the rudder in turning a ship in a calm, or to increase her velocity in a chase, etc.

10. SWEEP of the tiller, a circular frame on which the tiller traverses in large ships.

Sweep [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To pass with swiftness and violence, as something broad or brushing the surface of any thing; as a sweeping rain; a sweeping flood. A fowl that flies near the surface of land or water, is said to sweep along near the surface.

2. To pass over or brush along with celerity and force; as, the wind sweeps along the plain.

3. To pass with pomp; as, a person sweeps along with a trail.

4. She sweeps it through the court with troops of ladies.

5. To move with a long reach; as a sweeping stroke.

Sweep [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. preterit tense and participle passive swept.

2. To brush or rub over with a brush, broom or besom, for removing loose dirt; to clean by brushing; as, to sweep a chimney or a floor. When we say, to sweep a room, we mean, to sweep the floor of the room; and to sweep the house, is to sweep the floors of the house.

3. To carry with a long swinging or dragging motion; to carry with pomp.

4. And like a peacock, sweep along his tail.

5. To drive or carry along or off by a long brushing stroke or force, or by flowing on the earth. Thus the wind sweeps the snow from the tops of the hills; a river sweeps away a dam, timber or rubbish; a flood sweeps away a bridge or a house. Hence,

6. To drive, destroy or carry off many at a stroke, or with celerity and violence; as, a pestilence sweeps off multitudes in a few days. The conflagration swept away whole streets of houses.

7. I have already swept the stakes.

8. To rub over.

9. Their long descending train,

10. With rubies edg'd and sapphires, swept the plain.

11. To strike with a long stroke.

12. Wake into voice each silent string,

13. And sweep the sounding lyre.

14. To draw or drag over; as, to sweep the bottom of a river with a net, or with the bight of a rope, to hook an anchor.

Sweep [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of sweeping.

2. The compass or range of a stroke; as, a long sweep.

3. The compass of any turning body or of any motion; as, the sweep of a door; the sweep of the eye.

4. The compass of anything flowing or brushing; as, the flood carried away everything within its sweep.

5. Violent and general destruction; as, the sweep of an epidemic disease.

6. Direction and extent of any motion not rectlinear; as, the sweep of a compass.

7. Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, or the like, away from a rectlinear line.

8. One who sweeps; a sweeper; specifically, a chimney sweeper.

9. A movable templet for making molds, in loam molding.

10. The mold of a ship when she begins to curve in at the rungheads; any part of a ship shaped in a segment of a circle.

11. A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.

12. The almond furnace.

13. A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water.

14. In the game of casino, a pairing or combining of all the cards on the board, and so removing them all; in whist, the winning of all the tricks (thirteen) in a hand; a slam.

15. The sweeping of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.

Sweep [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To pass a broom across (a surface) so as to remove loose dirt, dust, etc.; to brush, or rub over, with a broom for the purpose of cleaning; as, to sweep a floor, the street, or a chimney. Used also figuratively.

2. To drive or carry along or off with a broom or a brush, or as if with a broom; to remove by, or as if by, brushing; as, to sweep dirt from a floor; the wind sweeps the snow from the hills; a freshet sweeps away a dam, timber, or rubbish; a pestilence sweeps off multitudes.

3. To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.

4. To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.

5. To strike with a long stroke.

6. To draw or drag something over; as, to sweep the bottom of a river with a net.

7. To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation; as, to sweep the heavens with a telescope.

8. To clean rooms, yards, etc., or to clear away dust, dirt, litter, etc., with a broom, brush, or the like.

9. To brush swiftly over the surface of anything; to pass with switness and force, as if brushing the surface of anything; to move in a stately manner; as, the wind sweeps across the plain; a woman sweeps through a drawing-room.

10. To pass over anything comprehensively; to range through with rapidity; as, his eye sweeps through space.

Sweep-net [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A large net for drawing over a large compass.

Sweep-saw [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A bow-saw.

Sweep-sop [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A name of the Annona squamosa.

Sweepage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The crop of hay got in a meadow.

Sweeper [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One that sweeps.

Sweeper [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who, or that which, sweeps, or cleans by sweeping; a sweep; as, a carpet sweeper.

Sweeping [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Brushing over; rubbing with a broom or besom; cleaning with a broom or besom; brushing along; passing over; dragging over.

Sweeping [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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; as, a sweeping flood; a sweeping majority; a sweeping accusation.

Sweeping [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Sweep

Sweepings [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

plural Things collected by sweeping; rubbish. The sweepings of streets are often used as manure.

Sweepings [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Things collected by sweeping; rubbish; as, the sweepings of a street.

Sweepstake [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A man that wins all; usually sweepstakes.

Sweepstake [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A winning of all the stakes or prizes.

2. A complete removal or carrying away; a clean sweep.

Sweepstakes [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A winning of all the stakes or prizes; a sweepstake.

Sweepstakes [Singular and plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The whole money or other things staked at a horse race, a given sum being put up for each horse, all of which goes to the winner, or is divided among several, as may be previously agreed.

2. A race for all the sums staked or prizes offered.

Sweepwasher [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who extracts the residuum of precious metals from the sweepings, potsherds, etc., of refineries of gold and silver, or places where these metals are used.

Sweepy [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Passing with speed and violence over a great compass at once.

2. The branches bend before their sweepy sway.

3. Strutting.

4. Wavy.

Sweepy [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Moving with a sweeping motion.

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Genesis 18:23

And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

Abraham stepped forward and said, “Will You really sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

Genesis 18:24

Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?

What if there are fifty righteous ones in the city? Will You really sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous ones who are there?

1 Samuel 15:6

And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

And he warned the Kenites, “Since you showed kindness to all the Israelites when they came up out of Egypt, go on and get away from the Amalekites. Otherwise I will sweep you away with them.” So the Kenites moved away from the Amalekites.

Job 5:13

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.

Job 9:26

They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.

They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.

Job 27:20

Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night.

Job 27:21

The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.

The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

Psalms 58:9

Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

Before your pots can feel the burning thorns— whether green or dry— He will sweep them away.

Proverbs 21:7

The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.

The violence of the wicked will sweep them away because they refuse to do what is just.

Proverbs 28:3

A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.

A destitute leader who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain that leaves no food.

Song of Solomon 8:7

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

Mighty waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love, his offer would be utterly scorned.

Isaiah 8:8

And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.

It will pour into Judah, swirling and sweeping over it, reaching up to the neck; its spreading streams will cover your entire land, O Immanuel!

Isaiah 11:15

And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.

The LORD will devote to destruction the gulf of the Sea of Egypt; with a scorching wind He will sweep His hand over the Euphrates. He will split it into seven streams for men to cross with dry sandals.

Isaiah 14:23

I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.

“I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of Hosts.

Isaiah 21:1

The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.

This is the burden against the Desert by the Sea: Like whirlwinds sweeping through the Negev, an invader comes from the desert, from a land of terror.

Isaiah 28:17

Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the level. Hail will sweep away your refuge of lies, and water will flood your hiding place.

Isaiah 28:19

From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

As often as it passes through, it will carry you away; it will sweep through morning after morning, by day and by night.” The understanding of this message will bring sheer terror.

Isaiah 33:4

And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.

Your spoil, O nations, is gathered as by locusts; like a swarm of locusts men sweep over it.

Isaiah 40:24

Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.

Ezekiel 5:17

So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.

I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken.”