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swept

/swɛpt/ adjective B1
  1. Cleared of mines (explosive devices).
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Then, before he could pull it out again—or let go—the raft was swept away, and the poor Scarecrow was left clinging to the pole in the middle of the river.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 45 · B2
I just swept her a look of freezing scorn and she got as red as a beet and spelled it wrong after all.”
Anne of Green Gables, p. 111 · C1
Those lazy fellows have not even swept the cobwebs away.” While he thus examined everything in turn, he spied the tips of the antlers of the Stag peeping out of the straw.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 34 · B2
She then swept it all out the door.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 90 · B2

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