What does sweep up mean?
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sweep up
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Princeton's WordNet
embroil, tangle, sweep, sweep up, drag, drag inverb
force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
"They were swept up by the events"; "don't drag me into this business"
espouse, embrace, adopt, sweep upverb
take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
"She embraced Catholicism"; "They adopted the Jewish faith"
Wiktionary
sweep upverb
To clean by sweeping.
sweep upverb
to transport to shore by waves.
sweep upverb
to overwhelm
ChatGPT
sweep up
Sweep up generally refers to the action of using a broom or brush to gather and remove dirt, dust, or other unwanted material from a surface, typically a floor. Additionally, it can also mean to involve or take along, often in an effortless or unexpected way, as in a social event, movement, or activity.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of sweep up in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of sweep up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of sweep up in a Sentence
Virtually every one that I've seen here has been one that sweep up law-abiding gun owners into what I consider to be an overreach.
It was not humane, it was a military style of operation, [Eisenhower] sent hundreds of border patrol officers to sweep up people.
You can get nowhere near first place in Texas and still vacuum up a whole lot of delegates just because of the size of the state, we're under no illusions that there won't be a resounding Ted Cruz victory, but there are things that we think we can do on the margins to sweep up some delegates -- and we're going to do it.
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