Sweep Up

Definition: Sweep Up

Sweep Up

Verb

1. Force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action; "They were swept up by the events"; "don't drag me into this business".

2. Take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own; "She embraced Catholocism"; "They adopted the Jewish faith".

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

Synonyms: Sweep Up

On the coming into force of the present Treaty Germany will forthwith sweep up the mines in the following areas in the North Sea to the eastward of longitude 4� 00', E. of Greenwich: (1) Between parallels of latitude 53� 00', N. and 59� 00', N.; (2) To the northward of latitude 60� 30' N. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Because you find mouse droppings and some of the furniture stuffing the mice have used as nesting material, you get a broom and sweep up the mess. As you move around and sweep, tiny particles of fresh urine, droppings and saliva, with the virus in them, get kicked up into the air. This is the aerosolization. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "sweep up": To sweep or sweep up ♦ to sweep up a mold. Additional references.

Bulgarian 

смитам, мета (broom, sweep), бърша прах (dust), помитам (broom, sweep, sweep away, wipe out), излитам (blast off, fly out, start). (various references)

Chinese 

卷 (chapter, examination paper, to carry on, to roll, to sweep up). (various references)

German

zusammenraffen (amass, bundle together, bundle up, gather up, muster up, snatch, snatch up, summon up, to snatch, to snatch up), zusammenkehren (brush up), zusammenfegen, hochreißen, hochbinden (bind up), auffegen (brush up). (various references)

Hungarian

összeseper. (various references)

Italian

spazzare (sweep), raccogliere (collect, collect one's thoughts, crop, gather, harvest, harvests, make a collection of, pick, pick up, pull, raise, rally, reap, recollect, save, scoop, scoop up, take in), acchiappare (catch, gripe, griping, nail, seize, take). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

掃き集める (to sweep up together), 掃き寄せる (to sweep up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

はきあつめる (to sweep up together), はきよせる (to sweep up). (various references)

Manx

skeabey seose (brush up). (various references)

Pig Latin

eepsway upay

Turkish

süpürmek (brush, give smth. a sweep, sweep, whisk), süpürüp temizlemek. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: upsweep.

-2 letters: peeps, sweep, weeps.

-3 letters: ewes, peep, pees, peps, pews, pups, seep, spew, spue, supe, weep, wees.

-4 letters: ewe, pee, pep, pes, pew, pup, pus, see, sew, sue, sup, ups, use, wee.

-5 letters: es, pe, up, us, we.

+1 letter: upsweeps.

+3 letters: superpower, upsweeping.

+4 letters: superpowers, superweapon.

+5 letters: superpowered, superweapons.