sweep up

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sweep up

verb sweeps up · sweeping up · swept up

ambitransitive To clean by sweeping. I'll wash the floor after sweeping up.
transitive To transport to shore by waves. The only thing that frees the country from this curse is a favorable wind; this blows them into the sea, where they drown and are swept up on the beach for days afterwards in great heaps
passive, transitive, usually To overwhelm, to cause to become overly involved in. We got swept up in the excitement.

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@misc{sweep_up_2026,
  title = {sweep up},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sweep%20up},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}