"sweep up" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "sweeps up",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sweeping up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swept up",
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        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swept up",
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        "past"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I'll wash the floor after sweeping up.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "We swept up the leaves which had blown into the shop.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To clean by sweeping."
      ],
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        [
          "clean",
          "clean"
        ],
        [
          "sweep",
          "sweep"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive) To clean by sweeping."
      ],
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        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1897, Edmondo De Amicis, Maria Hornor Lansdale, Morocco its people and places:",
          "text": "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",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To transport to shore by waves."
      ],
      "id": "en-sweep_up-en-verb-dhJ~vPmn",
      "links": [
        [
          "shore",
          "shore"
        ],
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          "wave",
          "wave"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To transport to shore by waves."
      ],
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        "transitive"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We got swept up in the excitement.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to overwhelm, to cause to become overly involved in."
      ],
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        [
          "overwhelm",
          "overwhelm"
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          "cause",
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        [
          "become",
          "become"
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        [
          "overly",
          "overly"
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          "involved",
          "involved"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, usually passive) to overwhelm, to cause to become overly involved in."
      ],
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        "passive",
        "transitive",
        "usually"
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  ],
  "word": "sweep up"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sweeps up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sweeping up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swept up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swept up",
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        "past"
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      },
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          "text": "I'll wash the floor after sweeping up.",
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        },
        {
          "text": "We swept up the leaves which had blown into the shop.",
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        }
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        "To clean by sweeping."
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        "(transitive, intransitive) To clean by sweeping."
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        {
          "ref": "1897, Edmondo De Amicis, Maria Hornor Lansdale, Morocco its people and places:",
          "text": "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",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To transport to shore by waves."
      ],
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          "shore",
          "shore"
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          "wave",
          "wave"
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        "(transitive) To transport to shore by waves."
      ],
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          "text": "We got swept up in the excitement.",
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        "to overwhelm, to cause to become overly involved in."
      ],
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          "cause",
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          "become",
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          "overly",
          "overly"
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          "involved",
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        "(transitive, usually passive) to overwhelm, to cause to become overly involved in."
      ],
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