"sweeping" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈswiːpɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sweeping.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more sweeping [comparative], most sweeping [superlative]
Rhymes: -iːpɪŋ Head templates: {{en-adj}} sweeping (comparative more sweeping, superlative most sweeping)
  1. Wide, broad, affecting or touching upon many things. Synonyms (wide; broad): across-the-board Translations (wide, broad, affecting many things): широк (širok) (Bulgarian), обхватен (obhvaten) (Bulgarian), laaja (Finnish), yleistävä (Finnish), yleisluontoinen (Finnish), à l’emporte-pièce (French), radical (French), complet (French), large (French), vaste (French), ფართო (parto) (Georgian), gyökeres (Hungarian), mélyreható (Hungarian), átfogó (Hungarian), alapos (Hungarian), elsöprő (Hungarian), doszczętny (Polish)
    Sense id: en-sweeping-en-adj-2V7nT8W3 Disambiguation of 'wide; broad': 100 0 Disambiguation of 'wide, broad, affecting many things': 96 4
  2. Completely overwhelming.
    Sense id: en-sweeping-en-adj-BzhmKqdw
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: comprehensive, generic, sweeping changes, sweeping generalisations, sweeping reductions, sweeping cuts, sweeping rain, sweeping gesture

Noun

IPA: /ˈswiːpɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sweeping.wav [Southern-England] Forms: sweepings [plural]
Rhymes: -iːpɪŋ Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} sweeping (countable and uncountable, plural sweepings)
  1. (countable) An instance of sweeping. Tags: countable Translations (an instance of sweeping): balayage (French), söprés (Hungarian), lesöprés (Hungarian), összesöprés (Hungarian), kisöprés (Hungarian), spazzata [feminine] (Italian), scopata [feminine] (Italian), escobatge [masculine] (Occitan), escobada [feminine] (Occitan), escobàs [masculine] (Occitan), ecobassa [feminine] (Occitan), escobeta [feminine] (Occitan), balaja [feminine] (Occitan), espolseta [feminine] (Occitan)
    Sense id: en-sweeping-en-noun-FtTh9cuO Disambiguation of 'an instance of sweeping': 95 5
  2. (uncountable) The activity of sweeping. Tags: uncountable Translations (the activity of sweeping): метене (metene) [neuter] (Bulgarian), balayage [masculine] (French), Fegen (German), Kehren (German), söprés (Hungarian), sepregetés (Hungarian), söprögetés (Hungarian), brîng'gie [feminine] (Norman)
    Sense id: en-sweeping-en-noun-EnDFL8uB Disambiguation of 'the activity of sweeping': 6 94
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: at a sweeping reduction, sweeping day, sweeping flood, sweeping-machine, sweeping rain, sweepings

Verb

IPA: /ˈswiːpɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sweeping.wav [Southern-England]
Rhymes: -iːpɪŋ Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} sweeping
  1. present participle and gerund of sweep Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: sweep
    Sense id: en-sweeping-en-verb-i7fJd3r7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 36 3 6 0 55

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "The sidewalk needed a sweeping every morning."
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "an instance of sweeping",
      "word": "balayage"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "an instance of sweeping",
      "word": "söprés"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "an instance of sweeping",
      "word": "lesöprés"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "an instance of sweeping",
      "word": "összesöprés"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "an instance of sweeping",
      "word": "kisöprés"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "an instance of sweeping",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "spazzata"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "an instance of sweeping",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "scopata"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "an instance of sweeping",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "escobatge"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "an instance of sweeping",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "escobada"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "an instance of sweeping",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "escobàs"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "an instance of sweeping",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ecobassa"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "an instance of sweeping",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "escobeta"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "an instance of sweeping",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "balaja"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "an instance of sweeping",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "espolseta"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "metene",
      "sense": "the activity of sweeping",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "метене"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "the activity of sweeping",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "balayage"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the activity of sweeping",
      "word": "Fegen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the activity of sweeping",
      "word": "Kehren"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "the activity of sweeping",
      "word": "söprés"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "the activity of sweeping",
      "word": "sepregetés"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "the activity of sweeping",
      "word": "söprögetés"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "the activity of sweeping",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "brîng'gie"
    }
  ],
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}

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          "type": "example"
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        {
          "text": "He loves making sweeping statements without the slightest evidence.",
          "type": "example"
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        {
          "ref": "1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “\"The Aberdonian\" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 7",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-06-21",
          "text": "By the time politicians in several cities backed down on Tuesday and announced that they would cut or consider reducing fares, the demonstrations had already morphed into a more sweeping social protest, with marchers waving banners carrying slogans like “The people have awakened.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3",
          "text": "The thing is, we've even had formal confirmation from Government itself that the crucial research required to make such sweeping claims hasn't been done!",
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    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He claimed a sweeping victory."
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      "sense": "wide; broad",
      "word": "across-the-board"
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    {
      "word": "generic"
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    {
      "word": "sweeping changes"
    },
    {
      "word": "sweeping generalisations"
    },
    {
      "word": "sweeping reductions"
    },
    {
      "word": "sweeping cuts"
    },
    {
      "word": "sweeping rain"
    },
    {
      "word": "sweeping gesture"
    }
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "širok",
      "sense": "wide, broad, affecting many things",
      "word": "широк"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "obhvaten",
      "sense": "wide, broad, affecting many things",
      "word": "обхватен"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "wide, broad, affecting many things",
      "word": "laaja"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "wide, broad, affecting many things",
      "word": "yleistävä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "wide, broad, affecting many things",
      "word": "yleisluontoinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "wide, broad, affecting many things",
      "word": "à l’emporte-pièce"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "wide, broad, affecting many things",
      "word": "radical"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "wide, broad, affecting many things",
      "word": "complet"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "wide, broad, affecting many things",
      "word": "large"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "wide, broad, affecting many things",
      "word": "vaste"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "parto",
      "sense": "wide, broad, affecting many things",
      "word": "ფართო"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "wide, broad, affecting many things",
      "word": "gyökeres"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "wide, broad, affecting many things",
      "word": "mélyreható"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "wide, broad, affecting many things",
      "word": "átfogó"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "wide, broad, affecting many things",
      "word": "alapos"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "wide, broad, affecting many things",
      "word": "doszczętny"
    },
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "wide, broad, affecting many things",
      "word": "elsöprő"
    }
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