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Significados de sweep up em inglês

português
ser empurrado

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

ser empurrado
português
abraçar
catalão
abraçar
espanhol
abrazar

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

abraçar
Uso de sweep up em inglês
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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;...
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But that it should sweep up my daughter in its... crudities-that'shard.
The clouds beneath the sun
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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
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Then nothing would be left but to sweep up the fragments.
The Scouts of Stonewall: The Story of the Great Valley Campaign
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From the west, bluish-black rain-clouds sweep up and open their sluice-gates.
From Pole to Pole: A Book for Young People
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When breakfast was over, it was his turn to sweep up.
The Second Class Passenger: Fifteen Stories
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We'll try to sweep up the mess afterwards. She sounded defeated and worn-out.
Beyond The Frontier: Guardian
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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
espanhol
abrazar
Sweep up ao longo do tempo
Sweep up nas variantes da língua
Estados Unidos da América
Comum
Reino Unido
Comum