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Definition: Sweeping |
SweepingAdjective1. Taking in or moving over (or as if over) a wide area; often used in combination; "a sweeping glance"; "a wide-sweeping view of the river". 2. Moving in a wide curve; "sweeping strokes". 3. Ignoring distinctions; "indiscriminate slaughter of a population"; "sweeping generalizations"; "wholesale destruction". 4. Having broad range or effect; "had extensive press coverage"; "far-reaching changes in the social structure"; "sweeping reforms". Noun1. The act of cleaning with a broom. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sweeping" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of sweeping, denotes that you will gain favor in the eyes of your husband, and children will find pleasure in the home. If you think the floors need sweeping, and you from some cause neglect them, there will be distresses and bitter disappointments awaiting you in the approaching days. To servants, sweeping is a sign of disagreements and suspicion of the intentions of others. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Mining | See:sweeps. (references) |
Sports & Leisure | Each player has a broom for -- in front of a stone delivered by a teammate. -- clears away small particles and slickens the ice. . . Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: SweepingSynonyms: extensive (adj), far-reaching (adj), wholesale (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Completeness | Exhaustive, radical, sweeping, thorough-going; dead. |
Generality | Adjective: general, generic, collective; broad, comprehensive, sweeping; encyclopedical, widespread; (dispersed). |
Revolution | Noun: revolution, bouleversement, subversion, break up; destruction; sudden change, radical change, sweeping organic change; change of state, phase change; quantum leap, quantum jump; clean sweep, coup d'etat, counter revolution. |
Whole | Wholesale, sweeping; comprehensive. |
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Screenplays | Good, you can start by sweeping the floor (Back to the Future; writing credit: Robert Zemeckis; Bob Gale) Yes, Bob. Larry-Boy mania is sweeping the nation (VeggieTales: Larry-Boy & the Fib from Outer Space!; writing credit: Sylvia Ulrich; Klaus Waller) Yes. What she does, she gets me in a, sort of, thing called a sweeping ankle throw (Lolita; writing credit: Vladimir Nabokov;) | |
Lyrics | I was sweeping up the floor (We Danced; performing artist: Brad Paisley) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Sweeping Against the Winds (1930) Street Sweeping Brigade (1901) | |
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 | Photographed circa early 1865. Nearest ship is USS Saugus, with a mine sweeping "torpedo rake" attached to her bow. Next monitor astern is probably USS Sangamon. Visible just to the right of her is either USS Mahopac or USS Canonicus. Last two ships are USS Atlanta and USS Onondaga. Photographed by the Matthew Brady organization. Note the log boom across the river in the foreground and the signal tower atop the hill in the right distance. Credit: NAVY. |  | Sweeping for mines during a commando raid by British Royal Marines at Chinnampo, North Korea. Original photo is dated 15 June 1951. This operation was intended to cut rail and other enemy supply lines. Note lookout watching for mines off Gull's bow. Credit: NAVY. |
 | In Trent's Reach on the James River, Virginia, circa early 1865. Note the mine sweeping "rake" attached to her bow. Credit: NAVY. |  | Republic of Korea minesweeper YMS-516 is blown up by a magnetic mine, during sweeping operations west of Kalma Pando, Wonsan harbor, on 18 October 1950. This ship was originally the U.S. Navy's YMS-148, which had served in the British Navy in 1943-46. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Broom sweeping out diploma, books and inkwell, and letter N. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Woman grinding small gear cutter, and woman sweeping at Midvale Steel & Ordnance Co., Nicetown, Pa., during World War I. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Corral, woman sweeping up trash, San Antonio, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mrs. Charles Benning sweeping steps of shack in "Shantytown," Spencer, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Lititz, Pennsylvania. Old Mennonite sweeping leaves. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Ordnance building, Camp Kilmer, New Jersey. Sweeping view to doors. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Sweeping glass across the floor with a broom. | | Sweeping the floor with a broom. |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | At one time Patty came to say she thought the kitchen chimney wanted sweeping. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This whirlwind which was within him, affected him as if it were without, and were sweeping him along |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | An old servant was sweeping at the end of the landing |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The electric fan in the corner waves its head slowly back and forth, sweeping the room with a warm breeze |
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Health | Don't stir up dust by sweeping up or vacuuming up droppings, urine or nesting materials. (references) | |
Histoplasmosis is a disease caused when airborne spores of the fungus Histoplasma capsulatum are inhaled into the lungs, the primary infection site. This microscopic fungus, which is found throughout the world in river valleys and soil where bird or bat droppings accumulate, is released into the air when soil is disturbed by plowing fields, sweeping chicken coops, or digging holes. (references) | ||
Business | Sweeping economic reform was launched in early 1990 with International Monetary Fund (IMF) guidance. (references) | |
Under a sweeping exception to the law, officials need not provide notification if it would "hinder the investigation" of a case. (references) | ||
These policies were affirmed in March 1998 at the Ninth National People's congress, which also passed a sweeping reform of China's state apparatus. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Malaysia | Opposition parties and NGO activists claim that the sweeping powers granted to the Registrar of Companies were designed to stifle criticism. (references) |
Economic History | Italy | Party changes were sweeping. (references) |
Syria | It is expected that Syria will enact sweeping changes to its IPR legal system in coming months. (references) | |
Human Rights | India | Human rights groups say that the PSA's sweeping powers, combined with a prisoner's lack of access to family members or to a lawyer, lead to a recipe for abuse. (references) |
Syria | Nonetheless, the Emergency Law and the Penal Code are so broad and vague, and the Government's power so sweeping, that many persons were convicted and are in prison for the mere expression of political opposition to the Government. (references) | |
South Africa | The SAPS continued to undergo sweeping, mostly positive changes, including the institution of reforms designed to create partnerships between local police forces and the communities that they serve, and the establishment of metropolitan police forces in major cities with local control. (references) | |
Minorities | India | Dalits are considered unclean by higher caste Hindus and thus traditionally are relegated to separate villages or neighborhoods and to low paying and often undesirable occupations (such as scavenging, street sweeping, and removing human waste and dead animals). (references) |
Political Economy | Bahrain | There has been more sweeping political changes in the last year than Bahrain has seen since independence. (references) |
Korea | He promised sweeping economic and political reform, transparency in business practices, and further liberalization in trade and investment. (references) | |
Political Rights | Kenya | At the local level, the President exercises sweeping power over the administrative structure. (references) |
Trade | Honduras | In March 1990, with the passage of a sweeping economic reform package, the Central Bank of Honduras devalued the lempira vis-a-vis the dollar, and later permitted it to float freely. (references) |
Travel | Sri Lanka | In the event of a terrorist attack, Americans should monitor local radio and television, seek cover away from windows and return to their homes or hotels when it is safe to do so. In May 2000, the Sri Lankan Government activated provisions of the Public Security Ordinance, giving certain government authorities sweeping powers to deal with threats to national security. (references) |
Worker Rights | Cote d'Ivoire | For example, the sanitary services company ASH continues to pay wages as low as $15.50 (12,000 CFA francs) a month to female employees who work sweeping the streets of Abidjan. (references) |
Mongolia | In many cases, prisoners work to support the detention facility or prison in which they are held, and detained alcohol abusers and petty criminals sometimes are required, as part of their sentences, to perform menial tasks such as street sweeping. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | Nor is it the right time for massive and sweeping changes while we are still recovering from the recession. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Together, we not only cut the increase in government spending nearly in half, we brought about the largest tax reductions and the most sweeping changes in our tax structure since the beginning of this century. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Congress and I are near agreement on sweeping welfare reform. |
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| "Sweeping" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 59.14% of the time. "Sweeping" is used about 792 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 59.14% | 469 | 12,605 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 40.86% | 324 | 15,993 |
| Total | 100.00% | 792 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "sweeping": attrition sweeping ♦ check sweeping ♦ initial path sweeping ♦ make sweeping statements ♦ precursor sweeping ♦ search sweeping ♦ skim sweeping ♦ sweeping changes ♦ sweeping statement. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sweeping": sweeping-up. | |
Ending with "sweeping": chimney-sweeping, far-too-sweeping, floor-sweeping, mine-sweeping, street-sweeping. | |
Containing "sweeping": Group-Sweeping Scheduling. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "sweeping"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | plehra (dust, garbage, mullock, offal, offscourings, recrement, refuse, rejectamenta, rubbish, sweepings, tailings, trash, waste), i vrullshëm (blusterous, blustery, convulsive, darting, dashing, drastic, explosive, impetuous, rash, rattling, spasmodic, sudden, tearaway, tearing, thrifty, vehement, vigorous), i gjerë (ample, broad, broadminded, capacious, champaign, commodious, expanded, extensive, far flung, far reaching, hospitable, large, large scale, liberal, massive, mighty, rangy, roomy, spacious, splay, vast, vasty, wide), gjithëpërfshirës (all out, all-embracing, comprehensive, extensive, inclusive), fshirje (defacement, deletion, effacement, erasure, obliteration, rub, wiping). (various references) | |
Arabic | كنس (besom, broom, rake, scavenge, sweep, whisk), كسح الألغام, كبير (big, bulky, considerable, enormous, extent, formidable, full grown, grand, great, huge, immense, king size, large, magnificent, major, massive, massy, senior, sizable, tremendous, vast, voluminous, whacking, whopping), قمامة (garbage, muck, mud, refuse, rubbish, soil, sweepings, swill, trash), ساحق (cracking, crusher, crushing, great, landslide, massive, out and out, overpowering, overwhelming, rank, reducible, shattering, swinging), جارف (torrent, torrential), جرف (cliff, curette, drag, dragging, drift, escarpment, palisade, plow, precipice, rake, shovel, sweep, sweep away, transport, undercut bank, wash), جر (drag, dragging, draw, draw out, entrain, lug, pull, purchase, retrieve, tow, traction, trail, train, trill), إكتساح, شامل (catholic, comprehensible, comprehensive, extensive, full, full scale, general, generic, global, including, inclusive, overall, pandemic, perfect, thorough, total, universal). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | широк (ample, broad, capacious, catholic, deep, extensive, flaring, flyaway, full, large, loose, neglige, spacious, untight, vast, voluminous, wide), с голям обхват, метене (sweep), бърз (agile, brisk, dapper, expedite, expeditious, express, fast, forward, hasty, hurried, light-heeled, lively, natty, nippy, precipitate, pressing, prompt, quick, rapid, rattling, ready, rush, sharp, slapdash, slippy, smart, spanking, speedy, time-saving, urgent, wing-footed), буен (bacchanalian, blustery, catchy, ebullient, exuberant, furious, gross, high-spirited, hot, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hotheaded, impetuous, incandescent, jazz, jazzy, knockabout, lively, lush, luxuriant, obstreperous, opulent, phrenetic, prancing, profuse, proud, puffy, puppyish, rambunctious, rampant, rank, riotous, roaring, rough, rough and tumble, rousing, rude, rumbustious, spicy, spirited, thick, torrential, tumultuous, turbulent, unchecked, ungovernable, unruly, untamed, vigorous, violent, wanton, zizzi), безразборен (indiscriminate, promiscuous, tumultuary, undiscriminated), помитане (sweep). (various references) | |
Chinese | 清扫 (swept), 勢如 竹 . (various references) | |
Czech | všeobecný (all around, all round, blanket, broad, common, general, universal), rychlý (expeditious, fast, flying, hasty, high speed, nippy, quick, rapid, ready, spanking, speedy, swift, wing-footed), rozmáchlý, prudký (abrupt, acrimonious, big, bulge, effervescent, ferocious, fierce, fiery, glaring, grievous, gusty, heady, heated, heavy, high, hot tempered, hot-headed, impetuous, intense, keen, passional, passionate, peppery, rapid, rash, robust, rude, sharp, steep, stormy, strong, tempestuous, towering, tumultuous, vehement, vicious, vigorous, violent, virulent), pronikavý (biting, grating, high pitched, incisive, keen, penetrable, penetrating, pervasive, piercing, pungent, screechy, shrill, strident), široký (baggy, big, broad, wide). (various references) | |
Danish | fremmedstof, fejlvarer. (various references) | |
Dutch | hydrografische uitbaggering (wire-drag survey). (various references) | |
Finnish | venyvä termi (a sweeping term). (various references) | |
French | balayage (sweep). (various references) | |
German | schwungvoll (energetic, full of verve, jauntily, jaunty, lively, peppy, racy, rousing, snappily, sprightly, zestful, zestfully), umwälzend (cataclysmic, radical, revolutionizing), umfassend (blanket, broad, capacious, complete, comprehensive, comprising, enfolding, explicitly, extended, extensive, full, global, omnibus, thorough, wholesale, wide), radikal (categorical, drastic, flat, radical, radically, root, total, ultra), großangelegt (large scale, on a large scale), fegend, durchgreifend (drastic, far reaching, radical, taking drastic measures), drastisch (drastic, drastically, effective, effectual, efficacious, savage, savagely), Drahtlotung (wire-drag survey), Buersten (brushing), Ausschuss (board, caucus, committee, exit point, exit wound, reject, rejects, trash), ausladend (discharging, overhanging, projecting, protruding, unloading), ausfegend. (various references) | |
Greek | σκούπισμα (sweep). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מקיף (all inclusive, all out, circumscribed, comprehensive, embracing, extensive, overall, surrounding), מרחיק לכת (far reaching, venturesome), כולל י (comprehensive, general, global, omnibus, universal), 'ריפ" (scouring, sweep), 'רוף, טאוט, טאטוא (sweep), סוחף, סחיפ" (drift, erosion, leeway, wash), סריק" (carding, combing, screening, search, searching). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sodró, söprés (scavenging, sweep). (various references) | |
Indonesian | menyakinkan. (various references) | |
Italian | spazzolatura (brushing, polishing, scraping), spazzatura (dust, garbage, junk mail, rubbish, trash), vasto (ample, distant, extensive, far, large, long, multitudinous, remote, roomy, vast, wide, widely), rapido (abrupt, cursory, expeditious, express, fast, flying, hasty, quick, rapid, smart, speedy, swift), radicale (energetic, rad, radical, radically), pulizia (cleaning, cleanliness, cleanness, neatness, purity), impetuoso (boisterous, dashing, forceful, headlong, heady, hot, hot-headed, impetuous, impulsive, rapid, slapdash, slaphappy, vehement, violent), assoluto (absolute, all-time, clear, damned, downright, implicit, perfect, profound, sheer, stark, unqualified, utter, very), ampio (ample, broad, full, large, loose, roomy, spacious, vast, wide). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 掃除 (cleaning), 掃除 (cleaning). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | そうじ (analogy, Buddhist priest, cleaning, farewell address, resemblance, similarity, temple with a resident priest). (various references) | |
Korean | 공중소탕. (various references) | |
Manx | skeabey (brush, brush over, brush up, brushing, drift, sweep), lhean (broad, extensive, flat of nose, full, full of chin, sheet, wide). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eepingsway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | varredura (scan, sweep). (various references) | |
Russian | стремительный (darting, impetuous, rash, rathe, tearaway), сор (dust), решительный (categorical, crisp, decided, decisive, determinate, determined, drastic, emphatic, fateful, forceful, manful, plump, point blank, point-blank, purposive, resolute, resolved, strong-willed, unflinching, unhesitating), широкий (broad, catholic, ever-growing, far reaching, flyaway, general, large, loose, slip on, wide), подметание. (various references) | |
Scottish | suabag (a sweeping blow). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zamahivanje, brisanje (deletion, effacement, erasure, whisk, wipe), brišući, čišćenje (cleaning, cleansing, cleanup, defecation, purification, sweep). (various references) | |
Spanish | profundo (abysmal, dead, deep, developed, heavy, intensive, intent, intimate, low, lower, poignant, profound, sharp, sound, strong), majestuoso (August, augustly, dignified, imposing, majestic, stately), general (blanket, broad, catch-all, extensive, general, headlong, omnibus, usual), dramático (dramatic, scenic, scenical, stagey, stagy), dragado hidrográfico (wire-drag survey), despojo (dispossession, divestiture, divestment, spoil, spoliation), desecho (cast off, cull, discard, dross, refuse, reject, rejected article, rubbish, throw out), descarga (discharge, discharging, exhaust, unloading, volley), desborramiento, cepillado (brush, brushing, planing, shaven, shaving), borra (sediment, shag, stuffing, thick wool), barrido (scanning, scavengery, scavenging). (various references) | |
Swedish | radikal (forward, left wing, left winger, radical), kolossal (colossal, enormous, huge, immense, jumbo, mammoth, mighty, monumental, thumping, tremendous, whacking). (various references) | |
Thai | ท่วมท้น (drown, inundate, swallow), การกวา" (sweep), กว้างใหญ่ไพศาล (cosmic), ครอบคลุม. (various references) | |
Turkish | sert esen, süpüren, radikal (jacobin, rad, radical, root and branch), nefes kesici, köklü (deep rooted, deepseated, deep-seated, essential, ineradicable, inveterate, radical, root and branch, rooted), geniş kapsamlı (across the board, all inclusive, blanket, comprehensive, far reaching, far-going, in depth, omnibus, universal), geniş bir alanı kapsayan, genel (across the board, blanket, broad, collective, common, exoteric, general, generic, grand, liberal, overhead, plenary, prevailing, prevalent, running, widespread), ezici (crushing, damning, devastating, masher, oppressive, overwhelming), coşkulu (cock-a-hoop, declamatory, dithyrambic, effusive, enthusiastic, excited, exhilarated, glowing, gut, in a glow, rapturous, stirring, transported with joy, vehement), şiddetli (acute, astringent, bitter, brutal, burning, cast iron, consuming, deep, drastic, exquisite, extreme, ferocious, flaming, flash, forceful, frenetic, frenzied, fulminant, furious, gusty, hard, harsh, heavy, high, hot, impetuous, intemperate, intense, intensive, ironclad, keen, profound, rigorous, round, severe, sharp, slashing, sledgehammer, smacking, smart, smashing, spanking, splitting, stand up, stern, stinging, stormy, strenuous, strong, tempestuous, torrential, vehement, vicious, vigorous, violent, virulent). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | тралення, широкий (ample, big, broad, capacious, catholic, main, multitudinous, vast, wide), огульний (wholesale), навальний (precipitant, precipitate, slapping, slashing), прочісування (combing), прибирання (cleaning, police, riddance). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | quét đi, cuốn đi, chảy xiết bao quát; chung chung. (various references) | |
Welsh | ysgubol. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 28, Verse 3 |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Vir pauper calumnians pauperes similis imbri vehementi in quo paratur fames |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | A man pore chalengende pore men, lic is to hidous weder, in whiche is greithid hunger. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | A man of wealth who is cruel to the poor is like a violent rain causing destruction of food. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 28, Verse 3 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ang usa ka tawo sa kawalad-on nga magalupig sa mga kabus Mahasama sa ulan nga nagabanlas nga dili magabilin ug makaon. |
| Croatian | Èovjek opak koji tlaèi ubogoga - kiša je razorna poslije koje kruha nema. |
| Danish | En fattig Tyran, der kuer de ringe, er Regn, der hærger og ej giver Brød. |
| Dutch | Een arm man, die de geringen verdrukt, is een wegvagende regen, zodat er geen brood zij. |
| Finnish | Köyhä mies, joka vaivaisia sortaa, on kuin sade, joka lyö lakoon eikä anna leipää. |
| French | Un homme pauvre qui opprime les misérables Est une pluie violente qui fait manquer le pain. |
| German | Ein armer Mann, der die Geringen bedrückt, ist wie ein Meltau, der die Frucht verdirbt. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Penguasa yang menindas orang miskin, seperti hujan lebat yang merusak panen. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Orang berharta yang menganiayakan orang miskin itu laksana hujan tempias yang tiada meninggalkan rezeki lagi. |
| Italian | Un uomo empio che opprime i miseri è una pioggia torrenziale che non porta pane. |
| Maori | ¶ Ko te tangata rawakore e tukino ana i nga ware, ko tona rite kei te ua ta e kore ai te kai. |
| Norwegian | En fattig mann som undertrykker småfolk, er et regn som skyller bort kornet, så der ikke blir brød. |
| Portuguese | O homem pobre que oprime os pobres, é como chuva impetuosa, que não deixa trigo nenhum. |
| Rumanian | Un om sqrac care apasq pe cei obijduiyi, este ca o rupere de nori care aduce lipsq de pkne. - |
| Spanish | El hombre pobre que oprime a los más débiles es como lluvia torrencial que deja sin pan. |
| Swedish | En usel herre, som förtrycker de arma, är ett regn som förhärjar i stället för att giva bröd. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sweeping": sweepingly, sweepingness, sweepingnesses, sweepings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "sweeping": minesweeping, upsweeping. (additional references) | |
Words containing "sweeping": minesweepings. (additional references) | |
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"Sweeping" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: seepingt, Skeaping. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sweeping" (pronounced swē"ping) |
| 5 | -w ē" p i ng | weeping. |
| 4 | -ē" p i ng | beeping, bleeping, creeping, heaping, keeping, leaping, peeping, reaping, safekeeping, seeping, sleeping. |
| 3 | -p i ng | antidumping, aping, backslapping, bookkeeping, bumping, burping, camping, capping, carping, Chipping, chirping, chomping, chopping, clamping, clapping, clipping, clumping, coping, copping, cramping, crimping, cropping, damping, developing, dipping, draping, dripping, drooping, dropping, dumping, eavesdropping, enveloping, equipping, escaping, flapping, flipping, flopping, galloping, gaping, gasping, gossiping, grasping, griping, gripping, groping, grouping, gulping, handicapping, harping, helping, hoping, hopping, housekeeping, hyping, jumping, kidnaping, kidnapping, lamping, landscaping, lapping, limping, lopping, lumping, mapping, moping, mopping, napping, nipping, outstripping, overlapping, overstepping, peacekeeping, pimping, piping, popping, prepping, propping, pulping, pumping, ramping, raping, rapping, recapping, recouping, regrouping, reshaping, revamping, ripping, romping, roping, sapping, scalping, scooping, scoping, scraping, scrapping, scrimping, shaping, shipping, shopping, sidestepping, sipping, skimping, skipping, slapping, slipping, sloping, slumping, snapping, sniping, snooping, sopping, stamping, stepping, stereotyping, stomping, stooping, stopping, strapping, stripping, stumping, swamping, swapping, swiping, swooping, tamping, taping, tapping, thumping, tipping, topping, tramping, trapping, tripping, trooping, typing, unwrapping, upping, usurping, videotaping, walloping, Wapping, warping, whipping, whooping, whopping, wiping, Wiretapping, worshipping, wrapping, zapping, zipping. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: weepings. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-n-p-s-w" | |
-1 letter: seeping, spewing, weeping. | |
-2 letters: genies, genips, newies, newsie, peeing, seeing, sewing, signee, swinge. | |
-3 letters: genes, genie, genip, neeps, newie, ngwee, peens, peins, peise, penes, penis, pines, pings, segni, seine, sengi, siege, sinew, singe, snipe, spine, sweep, swine, swing, swipe, weens, weeps, wines, wings, wipes. | |
-4 letters: egis, engs, ewes, gees, gene, gens, gien, gies, gins. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-n-p-s-w" | |
+1 letter: sweepings. | |
+2 letters: sweepingly, upsweeping. | |
+4 letters: minesweeping, newspapering, pennyweights, sleepwalking, sweepingness. | |
+5 letters: minesweepings, presweetening. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Sounds | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Speeches | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Bible Trace 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Bibliography |
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