sweep away

Verb

Meaning

eliminate completely and without a trace

overwhelm emotionally

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Synonyms

wipe out sweep off chuck adios remove divorce protest eliminate blow reject shed cancel sweep sweeping dismiss

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Antonyms

allow continue focus save retain engage

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Hypernyms

move affect strike destroy impress destruct

Examples

The old values have been wiped out Source: Internet

Her swept her away Source: Internet

After elections to all three levels of government in 2017, the new federal system is flexing its muscles and showing how it can sweep away the cobwebs of old power networks. Source: Internet

Bernstein (2002) After the French Revolution the anticlerical feeling in Catholic countries coupled with the liberalizing effect of the Napoleonic Code made it possible to sweep away sodomy laws. Source: Internet

Abraham is persuasive in the story based on the rhetorical question "Will God sweep away the righteous with the wicked?" Source: Internet

Justin Langer's lifelong belief in the power of incumbency in Australian cricket is presenting Will Pucovski with a hurdle to the baggy green that not even his torrent of runs may be able to sweep away. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

sweep sweep along sweep aside sweep before your own door sweep book sweep down