SWEPT Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

swept

verb

Definition of swept

past tense of sweep

as in flowed

to move or proceed smoothly and readily the wind swept across the plain without respite

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Relevance

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

as in curved

to turn away from a straight line or course from this point the mountain range sweeps to the northeast and extends into the next state

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straightened

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of swept Morocco winger Gessime Yassine swept the ball home to round off a 4-2 victory over Haiti, making the 20-year-old the youngest goalscorer in Moroccan World Cup history. — Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 22 July 2026 Monday’s victory for the Braves was just their second in the last 11 games against the Padres and the first of this season after being swept in San Diego in June. — Chad Bishop, AJC.com, 21 July 2026 A number of Californians have died along the coast this summer, including a 5-year-old girl from San Bernardino who was swept into the ocean by powerful waves in Laguna Beach. — Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2026 Search crews later found the family's bodies after floodwaters swept through the area. — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 21 July 2026 Their home had been ripped from its foundation and swept into floodwaters with him still inside. — Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 20 July 2026 That came during the London marathon when its new super shoe swept the London Marathon, with Sabastian Sawe and Yomif Kejelcha making history in the men’s race in a sub-two-hour race, while Tigst Assefa won and broke the women’s world record. — Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 20 July 2026 The severe weather comes after powerful storms swept across a vast swath of the country, leaving at least eight people dead following flash flooding in Texas, Arizona and Utah. — Christopher Cann, USA Today, 20 July 2026 The fever for the 2026 FIFA World Cup tournament, the largest, most expansive in the competition’s 96-year history, has swept North America. — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 14 July 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for swept

Verb

Iran has also created a new pressure point to use against adversaries by blockading the Strait of Hormuz, the vital waterway through which a fifth of the world’s oil and natural gas flowed before the war.

— Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026
Urban runoff filled with a noxious brew of fertilizers, stormwater and sewage has flowed into the Seminole County lake from as far as Orlando, Winter Park and Altamonte Springs for decades.

— Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 July 2026

Definition of flowed

Verb

Long before curved, sculptural homes became a fixture of luxury real estate, French architect Claude Misbach was experimenting with the idea on the Mediterranean coast.

— Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 9 July 2026
The bigger the mass and the closer to that mass the light passes, the more its path is curved.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 6 July 2026

Definition of curved

Verb

In the days before his Ford Bronco drifted into the path of an oncoming semi-truck, Matt Miller was settling debts.

— Alex Andrejev, New York Times, 17 July 2026
Microsoft tied itself tightly to OpenAI through a series of investments, but the two companies drifted and became competing with each other after the abrupt 2023 ousting and reinstatement of OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, with little notice to Nadella.

— Jordan Novet, CNBC, 16 July 2026

Definition of drifted

Verb

Courtesy Luxury Living Costa Rica Fortunes sailed away to Europe 300 years ago.

— Donna Hardie-Scott, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Sears had allowed only a single and faced the minimum 13 batters when Michael Harris II tied the game with a home run that sailed just beyond the tall wall in right field with one out in the fifth.

— Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2026

Definition of sailed

Verb

Silent and purposeful, the pelicans cut through a raucous chaos of gulls at the end of the wharf and glided on into the marsh.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 July 2026
An endless procession of black SUVs, Escalades, luxury coaches, polished muscle cars and Uber Blacks glided onto West 31st Street.

— Bryan West, USA Today, 7 July 2026

Definition of glided

Verb

The stock has fallen about 20% in July and briefly slipped below its $135 IPO price on Wednesday for the first time.

— Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 17 July 2026
And little by little, Venezuela slipped off the front pages — even though, for millions of people, the work of rebuilding is just getting started.

— Cristina Guevara, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 July 2026