sweep away

VERB
  1. eliminate completely and without a trace
    The old values have been wiped out
  2. overwhelm emotionally
    Her swept her away
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How To Use sweep away In A Sentence

  • Rising up from the Astroturf, the "Don't tread on me" tsunamic swell of unknown hugeness, also known as "The Silent Majority", promised to sweep away the liberal minority in coast-to-coast Tax Day madness! Undefined
  • The War threatened to sweep away such fears in the uninhibited jingoism that greeted the outbreak of hostilities.
  • Aids, cholera and other diseases sweep away the chronically malnourished. Times, Sunday Times
  • But given the precedents that have accreted over the last several decades, precedents that the Court is unlikely to sweep away, it seems to me that the equal treatment view is on balance the best outcome we can get today.
  • Let's sweep away the broken glass.
  • She had always assumed that something would happen, sometime, to sweep away her marital comfort.
  • He was a declinist who thought that capitalism's destructive energies would sweep away the heroic virtues that built it.
  • One reason why the new rules are so radical is that they sweep away all the previous ones.
  • To sweep away such verbiage should help the victorious prosecution of the War of Resistance.
  • If civilisation lay in ruins, then there was a momentous opportunity to sweep away this heap of broken images and start afresh.
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