sweep

1. (transitive) To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.Examples: "to sweep a floor, the street, or a chimney"; "I will sweep it with the besom of destruction."transitive

2. (intransitive) To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.Examples: "The wind sweeps across the plain."; "The offended countess swept out of the ballroom."; "[H]as the course of the argument so accustomed you to agreeing that you were swept by it into a ready assent?"Synonyms: swingintransitive

3. (transitive) To search (a place) methodically.transitive

4. (intransitive, figuratively) To travel quickly.Examples: "Drifting thus, we made fast time down the bank through Cove Bay, and at 72 m.p.h. came sweeping round the curve past Girdleness light house, and so to the first sight of Aberdeen itself."; "Everton took that disputed lead in a moment that caused anger to sweep around the Emirates."figurativelyintransitive

5. (cricket) To play a sweep shot.

6. (curling) To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.