sweep
/swip/ verbo B2En español: barrer, peinar
- To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush. · to sweep a floor, the street, or a chimney
- To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke. · The wind sweeps across the plain.· The offended countess swept out of the ballroom.
- To search (a place) methodically.
- To travel quickly. · They've swept to power with an overwhelming majority.
- To play a sweep shot.
- To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
- To move something in a long sweeping motion, as a broom.
- To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
He/she/it sweeps · Pasado swept · Participio pasado swept · Forma en -ing sweeping
Formas del verbo
- Forma base
- sweep
- He/she/it
- sweeps
- Pasado
- swept
- Participio pasado
- swept
- Forma en -ing
- sweeping
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Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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Anger, amazement, consternation, and indecision swept over it in turn.
Then, with a bow, she swept from the room.
Not a tree nor a house broke the broad sweep of flat country that reached to the edge of the sky in all directions.
Well, that is a good sweeping generalization.
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