Sweeping is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SWEEPING in dictionary:

VERB:
• clean (an area) by brushing away dirt or litter
• move or remove (dirt or litter) by brushing it away
• move or push (someone or something) with great force
• hit (the ball) on the leg side by bringing the bat across the body from a half-kneeling position; hit a ball delivered by (a bowler) with such a stroke.
• move swiftly and smoothly
• cause to move swiftly and smoothly
• (of a person) move in a confident and stately manner
• affect (an area or place) swiftly and widely
• (of a geographical or natural feature) extend continuously in a particular direction, especially in a curve
• win all the games in (a series); take each of the winning or main places in (a contest or event)
• search (an area) for something
• examine (something) for electronic listening devices
• cover (an entire area) with a gun
• brush (hair) back from one's face or upwards
NOUN:
• the act of sweeping
• an act of sweeping something with a brush
• a long, swift curving movement
• the movement of a beam across the screen of a cathode ray tube.
• an attacking stroke in which the bat is brought across the body from a half-kneeling position to hit the ball to leg.
• a comprehensive search or survey of a place or area
• a survey of the ratings of television stations, carried out at regular intervals to determine advertising rates.
• a long, typically curved stretch of road, river, country, etc.
• a curved part of a drive in front of a building
• the range or scope of something
• a sweepstake.
• an instance of winning every event, award, or place in a contest
• a long, heavy oar used to row a barge or other vessel
• a sail of a windmill.
• a long pole mounted as a lever for raising buckets from a well.
• the act of cleaning with a broom
ADJECTIVE:
• wide-ranging
• Cleaning off surfaces, or cleaning away dust, dirt, or litter, as a broom does; moving with swiftness and force; carrying everything before it; including in its scope many persons or things; as, a sweeping flood; a sweeping majority; a sweeping accusation.
• taking in or moving over (or as if over) a wide area; often used in combination
• ignoring distinctions
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to clear or clean with a brush or broom
• the act of one that sweeps

Words related to SWEEPING

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Words that contain SWEEPING

sweepings15 ensweeping16 sweepingly19 upsweeping18 outsweeping17 minesweeping20 sweepingness18 minesweepings21 sweepingnesses20

How to use SWEEPING in a sentence

• The whisper of the sweeping wheat was swallowed up.
• And his passion gave him the eyes of a hunting hawk sweeping down over the grass.
• This is a sweeping statement and you must take into account the mind of him who makes it.
• Zenobia moved like a queen over the scene, her rich garments sweeping over the soft grass, her graceful arms swinging as with secret blessings.
• Yet, sometimes, even the most important of them, sweeping though they were, were in parts less sweeping than they seemed.
• One more straight reach of the river, one more great sweeping bend, and we should come upon the site of that old village of James Towne.
• For eighteen years a bloody war had been sweeping the plains of Poland, Russia and Sweden.
• One wild, sweeping glance Van cast about, for a horse or something to ride.
• It was pitch dark, and the wind, which had arisen during the night, was sweeping through the open windows, blowing the light curtains about.
• This is a sweeping statement, and requires to be justified.
• They closed them with low quick sullen orders sweeping on.
• He had been spending the day trying to earn a few pence by sweeping a crossing.
• In this contest he fell into an ambush in the mountains near Port de Paix, a shower of bullets sweeping his ranks.
• The cruiser had rounded Rat Island, and was devoting one sweeping glance eastward ere she sought her prey in creek or tortuous channel.
• The ground here was in sweeping folds, so that they had a little hill to climb before the town lay open to them, at the edge of the sea, to the eastward of the salt lagoon.
• We were advised to feel thankful that a more sweeping measure had not been adopted.
• Sweeping the gloom Lunatic shadows fled and came Whirling about the room.
• The plans of the prophetic reformers had contemplated the sweeping changes described above, in the interests of an ethical and spiritual religion.
• In one sweeping survey, he figured up three dollars.
• He threw his hat on the bed with a sweeping romantic gesture.
• The light breeze was sweeping through rare Indian ferns and tropical palms.

Similar words containing SWEEP without suffix ing

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