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sweep - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | sweep |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | range, extent |
| Synonyms: | ambit, breadth, compass, extension, latitude, length, orbit, radius, reach, region, scope, span, stretch, vista, purview |
| Main Entry: | sweep |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | brush off, away |
| Synonyms: | broom, brush, brush up, clean, clear, clear up, mop, ready, remove, scrub, tidy, vacuum |
| Main Entry: | sweep |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | movement |
| Synonyms: | arc, bend, course, curve, gesture, move, play, progress, stroke, swing |
| Main Entry: | sweep |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fly, glide |
| Synonyms: | career, fleet, flit, flounce, glance, hurtle, pass, sail, scud, skim, tear, wing, zoom |
| Main Entry: | breeze |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | work quickly through task |
| Synonyms: | cruise, flit, glide, hurry, move, pass, sail, sally, skim, slide, slip, sweep, trip, waltz, zip |
| Main Entry: | capture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | catching, forceful holding |
| Synonyms: | abduction, acquisition, apprehension, appropriation, arrest, bag*, bust*, catch, collar, drop*, fall, grab*, grasping, hit the jackpot*, hook*, imprisonment, knock off*, nab*, nail*, occupation, pick up*, pinch*, pull*, run in*, securing, seizure, sweep*, trip, winning, acquirement, appropriating, commandeering, confiscation, ensnaring, gaining, laying hold of, obtaining, seizing, snatching, taking, taking captive, taking into custody, trapping |
| Antonyms: | freeing, release, letting go, liberalization |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | clean |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make undirty, uncluttered |
| Synonyms: | bath, bathe, blot, brush, cauterize, clarify, cleanse, clear the decks*, clear up, deodorize, disinfect, do up*, dredge, dust, erase, expunge, expurgate, flush, launder, mop, neaten, pick, pick up, polish, purge, purify, rake, rasp, refine, rinse, sanitize, scald, scour, scrape, scrub, soak, soap, sponge, spruce up*, sterilize, swab, sweep, vacuum, wash, whisk, winnow, wipe, absterge, depurate, deterge, edulcorate, elutriate, hackle, lave, rout out, shake out, shampoo, straighten up, tidy up |
| Antonyms: | adulterate, defile, dirty, foul, soil, stain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | compass |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boundary, periphery |
| Synonyms: | ambit, area, bound, circle, circuit, circumference, confines, domain, enclosure, environs, expanse, extent, field, limit, limitation, orbit, perimeter, precinct, radius, range, reach, realm, restriction, round, scope, sphere, stretch, sweep, zone, circumscription, purlieus, purview |
| Main Entry: | confines |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boundaries |
| Synonyms: | circumference, compass, country, dimension, edge, end, environs, extent, orbit, periphery, precinct, proportions, radius, range, reach, region, scope, sweep, term, terrain, territory, borders, bounds, limits, purlieus, purview |
| Antonyms: | open |
| Main Entry: | curve |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | arched, rounded line or object |
| Synonyms: | ambit, arc, arch, bend, bight, bow, circle, circuit, circumference, compass, concavity, contour, crook, curvature, festoon, hairpin, loop, quirk, round, sweep, swerve, trajectory, turn, vault, whorl, camber, catenary, chord, curlicue, curvation, ellipse, flexure, half-moon, helix, horseshoe, hyperbola, incurvation, incurvature, meniscus, ogee, parabola, rondure, sinuosity |
| Antonyms: | line |
| Main Entry: | ebb |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | regression; decline |
| Synonyms: | abatement, decay, decrease, depreciation, deterioration, diminution, drop, lessening, low tide, recession, retreat, shrinkage, sinking, sweep, wane, waning, withdrawal, backflow, degeneration, dwindling, fading away, flagging, going out, low water, outward flow, petering out, refluence, reflux, retrocession, retroflux, slackening, subsidence, weakening |
| Antonyms: | flow, incline, increase, rise |
| Main Entry: | expanse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large space, usually open |
| Synonyms: | area, belt, breadth, compass, distance, domain, extension, extent, field, immensity, latitude, length, margin, orbit, plain, radius, range, reach, region, room, scope, span, sphere, spread, stretch, sweep, territory, tract, width, wilderness, amplitude, remoteness, uninterrupted space |
| Main Entry: | extension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enlargement, continuation |
| Synonyms: | addendum, addition, adjunct, amplification, annex, appendage, appendix, arm, augmentation, branch, broadening, compass, continuing, delay, development, expansion, extent, increase, orbit, postponement, production, radius, reach, scope, span, spread, stretch, supplement, sweep, wing, dilatation, distension, drawing out, elongation, lengthening, prolongation, protraction, purview, spreading out, stretching, widening |
| Antonyms: | abbreviation, abridgment, compression, contraction, curtailment, decrease, reduction, shortening |
| Main Entry: | extent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | range, magnitude |
| Synonyms: | ambit, amount, area, breadth, bulk, capaciousness, compass, degree, dimensions, duration, expanse, expansion, extension, intensity, leeway, length, limit, mass, matter, measure, neighborhood, orbit, order, play, proliferation, proportions, quantity, radius, reach, scope, size, space, span, sphere, stretch, sweep, term, territory, time, tract, tune, vicinity, volume, width, admeasurement, amplitude, bounds, elbowroom*, period of time, purview, spaciousness, wideness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | flutter, move rapidly |
| Synonyms: | dance, dart, flash, fleet, flicker, float, fly, hover, hurry, pass, run, rush, sail, scud*, skim, speed, sweep, whisk, whiz, wing, zip |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flood |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | inundate or submerge |
| Synonyms: | choke, deluge, drown, engulf, fill, flow, glut, gush, immerse, overflow, overwhelm, rush, saturate, surge, swamp, swarm, sweep, brim over, oversupply, pour over, whelm |
| Main Entry: | flourish |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | curlicue, decoration |
| Synonyms: | curl, embellishment, garnish, ornamentation, quirk, spiral, sweep, twist, furbelow, plume |
| Main Entry: | flow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | issue, surge, run out |
| Synonyms: | abound, arise, brim, cascade, circulate, continue, course, deluge, discharge, dribble, ebb, emanate, emerge, emit, exude, flood, glide, gurgle, gush, inundate, jet, leak, move, ooze, overflow, pass, percolate, pour, proceed, progress, regurgitate, result, ripple, roll, rush, slide, sluice, spew, spill, splash, spring, spurt, sputter, squirt, stream, sweep, swell, swirl, teem, trickle, tumble, void, disembogue, exudate, pullulate, smooth along, well forth |
| Antonyms: | trickle |
| Main Entry: | gamut |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | range |
| Synonyms: | area, catalogue, compass, extent, field, panorama, scale, scope, series, spectrum, sweep, diapason |
| Notes: | gamut is a complete extent or range; gauntlet is a form of punishment or torture in which a person is forced to run between two lines of people facing each other and armed with clubs, whips, and other weapons to beat the victim, or to offer or accept a challenge, or a protective glove with long sleeve |
| Main Entry: | land |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | earth's surface; ownable property |
| Synonyms: | acreage, area, beach, continent, country, countryside, dirt, district, earth, estate, expanse, extent, farming, field, ground, grounds, home, homeland, mainland, manor, nation, parcel, plot, province, purlieu, quarry, ranch, real estate, region, shore, sod, soil, stretch, sweep, terra firma, terrain, territory, tract, acres, farmland, holding, loam, old sod, quinta, realty, tillage |
| Antonyms: | sea, sky |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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