adjective. Having wide-ranging influence or effect.

adjective. Moving in or as if in a wide curve.

adjective. Indiscriminate; wholesale.

adjective. Overwhelming; complete.

noun. The action of one that sweeps.

noun. Things swept up; refuse.

Carrying everything before it; overwhelming: as, a sweeping majority.

Including or comprehending many individuals or particulars in a single act or assertion; comprehensive; all-including: as, a sweeping charge; a sweeping declaration.

noun. The act of one who or that which sweeps, in any sense; also, the result of such act.

noun. plural Whatever is gathered together by or as by sweeping; rubbish; refuse.

noun. Specifically— In stereotyping and electrotyping, the bits of metal thrown on the floor by sawing- and planing-machines.

noun. In printing, the waste paper swept up from the floor of a press-room.

noun. In bookbinding, the bits of gold-leaf gathered up by the cotton cloth that is used to remove the surplus gold of a gilded book.

adjective. Cleaning off surfaces, or cleaning away dust, dirt, or litter, as a broom does; moving with swiftness and force; carrying everything before it; including in its scope many persons or things

verb. Present participle of sweep.

noun. An instance of sweeping.

noun. The activity of sweeping.

adjective. wide, broad, affecting many things

adjective. Completely overwhelming

noun. the act of cleaning with a broom

adjective. ignoring distinctions

adjective. taking in or moving over (or as if over) a wide area; often used in combination

"If a moiety of sweeping the kennel from the Mews-gate to the Irish coffee-house opposite to it, could fetch a good price, and I was a witness once that it did, to an unfortunate beggar-woman, who was obliged by sickness to part with half of it; what might not a beggar expect, who had the _sweeping_ of the _Pont du Gard_; or a monk, who erected a confessional box near it for the benefit of _himself_, and the fouls of poor travellers?"

sweeping resolution  

broad  indiscriminate  wide  

at a sweeping reduction  sweeping day  sweeping flood  sweeping rain  sweeping-machine  

cleaning  cleansing  cleanup  

beeping  bleeping  creeping  heaping  keeping  

astrocytoma  demagoguery  dramaturgy  fowl-house  glioma  

absolute  across the board  across-the-board  aleatoric  aleatory  

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