Definition of "sweep up" []

• To clean by sweeping. (verb)
• To transport to shore by waves. (verb)
• To overwhelm (verb)

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• "The exterior walls sweep up three stories to a gabled roof."
• "I was so young that my share of the labors was unexacting, as I had only to sweep up the rubbish left by the builders and carry it out of the wood in my little wheelbarrow; but I remember that pride with which I felt myself associated in any capacity with such marvels of construction."
• "The other evening I caught one of the boys that sweep up the crutchings squatting in the press while the other packed a fleece round him."