'sweep up' definitions:
verb
Force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action; "They were swept up by the events"; "don't drag me into this business" [syn:
embroil,
tangle,
sweep, sweep up,
drag,
drag in]
verb
Take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own; "She embraced Catholicism"; "They adopted the Jewish faith" [syn:
espouse,
embrace,
adopt, sweep up]
Words containing 'sweep up'
- Sweep,
- Sweeping,
- Sweepingly,
- Sweepings,
- sweep off,
- sweep out,
- sweep over,
- sweep through,
- Chimney sweep,
- Sweep net,
- Sweep of the tiller,
- To sweep a mold,
- To sweep the deck,
- To sweep up a mold,
- Well sweep,
- clean sweep,
- sweep away,
- sweep hand,
- sweep oar,
- sweep under the rug,
- Sweep-saw,
- sweep-second
