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sweep over

Verb

Meaning

overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli

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Dark hair fell in a sweep over his forehead. He looked like a man who would write vers libre, as indeed he did. P. G. Wodehouse

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean - roll Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain Man marks the earth with ruin - his control Stops with the shore. Lord Byron

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