sweep away (English, verb)
expansion: sweep away (third-person singular simple present sweeps away, present participle sweeping away, simple past and past participle swept away)
Senses:
glosses: To remove something by, or as if by, sweeping.
tags: transitive
glosses: To overwhelm someone emotionally; sweep someone off their feet.
tags: idiomatic
transitive
glosses: to completely destroy, to annihilate
tags: idiomatic
transitive
Forms:
form: sweeps away
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sweeping away
tags: participle
present
form: swept away
tags: participle
past
form: swept away
tags: past