Usually means: Cleaning or moving broadly, extensively.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word Sweeping:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. sweeping: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sweeping: Merriam-Webster
  3. sweeping: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sweeping: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sweeping: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sweeping: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sweeping, sweeping: Wordnik
  8. sweeping: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sweeping: Wiktionary
  10. sweeping: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sweeping: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sweeping: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sweeping: Dictionary.com
  14. sweeping: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sweeping: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sweeping: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sweeping: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sweeping: Rhymezone
  19. sweeping: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sweeping: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. sweeping: FreeDictionary.org
  22. sweeping: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sweeping: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sweeping: Legal dictionary
  2. sweeping: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweeping (sport), sweeping: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. sweeping: Idioms

(Note: See sweepingly as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sweeping)

▸ noun:  (countable) An instance of sweeping.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) The activity of sweeping.
▸ adjective:  Wide, broad, affecting or touching upon many things.
▸ adjective:  Completely overwhelming.
▸ adjective:  Moving in a continuous motion, rather than by intermittent jumps. (For example, the second hand on a clock face may move either in the sweeping manner or in the ticking manner.)

Similar:
moving, wholesale, extensive, wide, broad, far-reaching, comprehensive, indiscriminate, sweepage, brooming, more...

Opposite:
localized, limited, narrow, specific, partial

Types:
broom sweeping, vacuum sweeping, hand sweeping, mechanical sweeping, industrial sweeping, street sweeping, carpet sweeping, leaf sweeping, more...

Phrases:
sweeping away, sweeping up, mine sweeping, sweeping the board, sweeping off their feet, more...

Adjectives:
tomb, street, mine, first, constant, grave, chimney

Colors:
    azure,     cerulean,     sky blue,     turquoise,     teal, more...



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Similar:
moving, wholesale, extensive, wide, broad, far-reaching, comprehensive, indiscriminate, sweepage, brooming, more...

Opposite:
localized, limited, narrow, specific, partial

Types:
broom sweeping, vacuum sweeping, hand sweeping, mechanical sweeping, industrial sweeping, street sweeping, carpet sweeping, leaf sweeping, more...

Phrases:
sweeping away, sweeping up, mine sweeping, sweeping the board, sweeping off their feet, group sweeping scheduling, sweeping score, sweeping under the carpet, Tomb Sweeping Day, Tomb Sweeping Festival, more...

Adjectives:
tomb, street, mine, first, constant, grave, chimney

Colors:
    azure,     cerulean,     sky blue,     turquoise,     teal, more...



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