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Meanings of sweep off in anglès

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Overwhelm emotionally.

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Usage of sweep off in anglès
1
When the snow stops falling, come and sweep off the walk.
Stories Worth Rereading
2
A few years sufficed to sweep off all the chiefs of the great house.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series
3
To bring her some flowers and sweep off the leaves.
White night
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I sweep off the glasses, stow them in a vest pocket, and blink away afterimages.
The Hyperion Cantos
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The whole enginery of iniquity is set in motion to sweep off this strange foreign propaganda.
Forty Years in South China: The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talma...
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You can sweep off to combat deforestation in Kenya, or help with wallaby conservation in Australia.
The Guardian
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About five o'clock the porter of the store next to it began to sweep off the sidewalk.
Down South; or, Yacht Adventure in Florida
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He top-edged a sweep off spinner Jeetan Patel to be held at deep backward square-leg by Kane Williamson.
Reuters
9
Of what use to cultivate the land when the Mahdists might at any moment sweep off the crops?
The Dash for Khartoum: A Tale of the Nile Expedition
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Why don't they sweep off 400 or 500 of them with the cannon?
Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Volum...
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Arcot bent down to tilt it and sweep off the dirt; he grasped it with one hand, and pulled.
The Black Star Passes
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But these people would well deserve that we should sweep off every mule and yoke of oxen around Evora.
The Actress in High Life / An Episode in Winter Quarters
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Grape-vines were tied across from tree to tree, to trip up the passers-by or to sweep off their caps.
David Crockett: His Life and Adventures
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He was bowled through his legs after yorking himself in an attempt to play a reverse- sweep off Joel Paris.
The Guardian
15
They should sweep off four or five hundred of them with the cannon; the rest would then set off fast enough.
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 01
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A grievous pestilence may sweep off an isolated people before the aid of the physician can arrive to arrest its progress.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20,...
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