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Definition of Sweep away
1. Verb. Eliminate completely and without a trace. "The old values have been wiped out"
2. Verb. Overwhelm emotionally. "Her swept her away"
Definition of Sweep away
1. Verb. (transitive) To remove something by, or as if by, sweeping. ¹
2. Verb. (idiomatic transitive) To overwhelm someone emotionally; sweep someone off their feet. ¹
3. Verb. (idiomatic transitive) to completely destroy, to annihilate ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sweep Away
Literary usage of Sweep away
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly (1884)
"... is it not plain that your conservatism has become an artificial barrier which
the progress of society must sooner or later sweep away ? ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1884)
"... is it not plain that your conservatism has become an artificial barrier which
the progress of society must sooner or later sweep away ? ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1852)
"And the Baron hurried his hand over his features, as if to sweep away all trace
of the passions that distorted their smiling effrontery. ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1836)
"... that triumph is not complete; it must yet sweep away the vestiges of those
errors which preceded it — errors which still linger among us; ..."
5. Sermons on Important Subjects by Samuel Davies, Albert Barnes (1841)
"Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the
hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, ..."
6. The Popular Science Monthly (1884)
"... is it not plain that your conservatism has become an artificial barrier which
the progress of society must sooner or later sweep away ? ..."
7. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1884)
"... is it not plain that your conservatism has become an artificial barrier which
the progress of society must sooner or later sweep away ? ..."
8. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1852)
"And the Baron hurried his hand over his features, as if to sweep away all trace
of the passions that distorted their smiling effrontery. ..."
9. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1836)
"... that triumph is not complete; it must yet sweep away the vestiges of those
errors which preceded it — errors which still linger among us; ..."
10. Sermons on Important Subjects by Samuel Davies, Albert Barnes (1841)
"Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the
hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, ..."
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