Sweep Away

Definition: Sweep Away

Sweep Away

Verb

1. Eliminate completely and without a trace; "The old values have been wiped out".

2. Overwhelm emotionally; "Her swept her away".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Sweep Away

Abrogation

Countermand, counter order; do away with; sweep away, brush away; throw overboard, throw to the dogs; scatter to the winds, cast behind.

Destruction

Smash, crash, quell, squash, squelch, crumple up, shatter, shiver; batter to pieces, tear to pieces, crush to pieces, cut to pieces, shake to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces; laniate; nip; tear to rags, tear to tatters; crush to atoms, knock to atoms; ruin; strike out; throw over, knock down over; fell, sink, swamp, scuttle, wreck, shipwreck, engulf, ingulf, submerge; lay in ashes, lay in ruins; sweep away, erase, wipe out, expunge, raze; level with the dust, level with the ground; waste; atomize, vaporize.

Ejection

Eject, reject; expel, discard; cut, send to coventry, boycott; chasser; banish; (punish); bounce ; fire, fire out; throw; throw out, throw up, throw off, throw away, throw aside; push; throw out, throw off, throw away, throw aside; shovel out, shovel away, sweep out, sweep away; brush off, brush away, whisk off, whisk away, turn off, turn away, send off, send away; discharge; send adrift, turn adrift, cast adrift; turn out, bundle out; throw overboard; give the sack to; send packing, send about one's business, send to the right about; strike off the roll; (abrogate); turn out neck and heels, turn out head and shoulders, turn out neck and crop; pack off; send away with a flea in the ear; send to Jericho; bow out, show the door to.

Relinquishment

Discard, cast off, dismiss; cast away, throw away, pitch away, fling away, cast aside, cast overboard, cast to the dogs, throw aside, throw overboard, throw to the dogs, pitch aside, pitch overboard, pitch to the dogs, fling aside, fling overboard, fling to the dogs; cast to the winds, throw to the winds, sweep to the winds; put away, turn away, sweep away; jettison; reject.

Love shines to sweep away the past (Price of Love; performing artist: Bad English)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

largohem me një frymë, hedh poshtë (censure, confute, contradict, controvert, decline, demolish, detrude, disclaim, disprove, dispute, knock out, push aside, rebut, refute, reject, repudiate, turn down, wave aside), fshij nga faqja e dheut. (various references)

Arabic 

‏جرف (cliff, curette, drag, dragging, drift, escarpment, palisade, plow, precipice, rake, shovel, sweep, sweeping, transport, undercut bank, wash). (various references)

Bulgarian 

унищожавам напълно, отстранявам (chase, cut away, eliminate, extirpate, fend off, get away, keep away, obviate, preclude, push aside, push away, reject, remove, repel, send off, shake, take out, weed out), ликвидирам бързо (polish off), повличам (drag, run away with, swamp), понасям (bear, bear off, bide, carry, carry off, digest, drag along, go, incur, play along, pocket, see, stand, stick, suffer, support, take, tolerate, undergo), помитам (broom, sweep, sweep up, wipe out), изчезвам (abscond, clear out, disappear, dissipate, evanesce, evanish, fall away, go, melt away, mosey, pass, pass away, pass off, shrink away, tail, vanish, waste, wear out, whirl away, work off), измитам (sweep, sweep out). (various references)

Chinese 

蕩 (a pond, dissolute, move, pool, shake, squander, wash), 掃除 . (various references)

Czech

odmést. (various references)

French

entraîner. (various references)

German

wegfegen (to sweep away). (various references)

Greek 

να σκουπίζω. (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�'רוף (scoop, sweep), לספות (destroy, perish), לסחוף (carry away, drift, erode, sweep, wash away). (various references)

Hungarian

halomra dönt (to thwart), elsöpör (to buzz off, to sweep, to sweep away). (various references)

Italian

spazzare via, travolgere (overwhelm, run over, steamroller), trascinare via (wash away). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

浚う (to dredge, to sweep away, to wash away), 拐う　 (to carry off, to run away with, to sweep away, to wash). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さらう (to abduct, to carry off, to dredge, to kidnap, to practise, to rehearse, to review, to run away with, to sweep away, to wash away). (various references)

Manx

skeabey ersooyl (brush away, sweep off, wash away), glenney ersooyl, cur jerrey er (conclude, cry off, discontinue, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish, finish, resolve). (various references)

Pig Latin

eepsway awayay

Russian 

сметать (sweep). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

počistiti (clean out, upsweep). (various references)

Spanish

irse rápidamente (get off), barrer (broom, dispel, live down, rake, scavenge, sweep), arrollar (carry, overwhelm, roll, roll up, throw back). (various references)

Swedish

sopa bort. (various references)

Turkish

süpürüp atmak (sweep, sweep off), ortadan kaldırmak (abolish, annihilate, blot out, charm away, clear away, clear off, do away with, extinguish, hide from view, iron out, kill, make away with, put away, put out of sight, raze, remove, suppress, sweep, take away), heyecanlandırmak (carry away, electrify, exalt, excite, ferment, flush, hot up, impassion, inebriate, key up, Spike, stir, stir up, sweep off, thrill, tickle up, transport, turn on, unsettle, warm up, wind up, work up), coşturmak (carry away, ecstasize, elate, enthuse, exhilarate, flush, inflame, key up, lend wings to, root for, send, steam up, sweep off, transport, warm up, whoop it up). (various references)

Ukrainian

знищувати (abolish, annihilate, annul, blast, consume, crush, delete, demolish, efface, exterminate, extinguish, kill, kill off, neutralize, nullify, obliterate, outroot, overthrow, overturn, pull up, quell, root out, root up, rub out, scotch, take off, torpedo, wear off, wither), змітати (clean down). (various references)

1. rig. (various references)

scopa, scopabo. (various references)

aswipan. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: payees, pesewa, seaway, sweepy.

-4 letters: payee, pease, seepy, sweep, waspy, weeps, weepy, yawps.

-5 letters: apes, apse, asea, away, awee, awes, ayes, ease, easy, espy, ewes, eyas, eyes, pase, paws, pays, peas, pees, pews, pyas, pyes, seep, spae, spay, spew, swap, sway, waes, waps, wasp, waws, ways, weep, wees, wyes, yaps, yawp, yaws, yeas.