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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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"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",
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"To transport to shore by waves."
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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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