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Meanings of sweep up in English

Portuguese
ser empurrado

Force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action.

        ser empurrado
        Portuguese
        abraçar
        Catalan
        abraçar
        Spanish
        abrazar

        Take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own.

              abraçar
              Usage of sweep up in English
              1
              Sudden doors flap, and gusts of brutal jollity sweep up the street.
              Nights in London
              2
              This was even better, for sometimes hard winds sweep up the river.
              Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico
              3
              I suppose he's going to sweep up many detachments of the enemy.
              The Star of Gettysburg: A Story of Southern High Tide
              4
              Most mornings I sweep up crumbs of polystyrene, from chewed roof insulation.
              The Irish Times
              5
              Now, Betty, get a dust-pan and brush and sweep up that glass.
              Elsie's New Relations / What They Did and How They Fared at Ion;...
              6
              But that it should sweep up my daughter in its... crudities-that'shard.
              The clouds beneath the sun
              7
              He went back to sweep up the glass, and straighten up the place.
              The new yorker
              8
              Spencer's father began to sweep up the broken pottery shards with a dustpan.
              Pretty Little Secrets
              9
              We'd sweep up the ashes and be done with a lot of trouble.
              The Lightning Thief
              10
              She would sweep up and down the grass while she dictated.
              Mary Gray
              11
              Then nothing would be left but to sweep up the fragments.
              The Scouts of Stonewall: The Story of the Great Valley Campaign
              12
              From the west, bluish-black rain-clouds sweep up and open their sluice-gates.
              From Pole to Pole: A Book for Young People
              13
              When breakfast was over, it was his turn to sweep up.
              The Second Class Passenger: Fifteen Stories
              14
              We'll try to sweep up the mess afterwards. She sounded defeated and worn-out.
              Beyond The Frontier: Guardian
              15
              All that's left to do then is sweep up the theater and go home:
              Automating system administration with perl
              16
              The broom and dustpan sweep up the pieces, and consign them to the dustbin.
              The Art of the Moving Picture
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              Translations for sweep up
              Spanish
              abrazar
              Sweep up through the time
              Sweep up across language varieties
              United States of America
              Common
              United Kingdom
              Common