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sweeping

/swee-ping/US // ˈswi pɪŋ //UK // (ˈswiːpɪŋ) //

扫荡,扫除,扫地,清扫

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of wide range or scope.
    • : moving or passing about over a wide area: a sweeping glance.
    • : moving, driving, or passing steadily and forcibly on.
    • : decisive; overwhelming; complete: a sweeping victory.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of a person or thing that sweeps.
    • : sweepings, matter swept out or up, as dust, refuse, etc.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.wide-ranging
Synonyms
across-the-board全面的,全局性,全场,全盘all-encompassing包罗万象,包罗万象的,全方位的,囊括一切broad广泛的,广泛,宽泛的,宽广的comprehensive全面,全面的,综合,综合性exhaustive详尽的,详尽无遗,详尽,详尽无遗的extensive广泛,广泛的,广泛地,广大radical激进的,偏激,偏激的,激进thorough彻底,彻底的,彻底地,详尽wholesale批发,趸交,趸趸,趸售blanket毯子,毯状物,覆盖面,毛毯complete完整的,完整,完全,完成exaggerated夸张的,夸张,夸大其词,夸大的full全程,全员,全,全文general一般,总体,普通,一般情况overall总体,整体,总体而言,总的来说overdrawn透支,透支的,透支了,透支了的overstated夸大其词,夸张的,夸大的,夸张all-around全能的,全面的,全能,全面all-embracing包罗万象,包罗万象的,兼容并包,兼容并蓄all-inclusive包罗万象,包罗万象的,全包式,无所不包all-out全力以赴,全力以赴的,全力投入,全力bird's-eye鸟瞰图,鸟瞰,鸟眼,鸟瞰式global全球,全球性的,全球的,全球性inclusive包容性,包容性的,普惠性,普惠性的indiscriminate不分青红皂白,不分青红皂白的,不分青红皂白地,不加区别地out-and-out不折不扣的,彻底的,不折不扣,彻头彻尾的thorough-goingunqualified不合格的,不合格,无资格,无保留的vast巨大的,庞大的,广阔的,浩瀚的wall-to-wall墙到墙,墙对墙,墙到墙的,墙对墙的whole-hog全猪,整只狗,全猪型,整猪wide宽阔的,宽广,阔,宽大

Examples

  • These sweeping observations are, disappointingly, the most thorough analysis Ehrlich provides on climate change as a whole.

  • The big influencers on state privacy bills are Europe’s sweeping General Data Protection Regulation and California’s now-strengthened privacy law.

  • It’s critical that advertisers take their exclusions seriously and understand what the implications of broad-sweeping exclusions can mean for their brands and their metrics.

  • The sweeping social and economic transformation that scientists say is needed to attack the problem will require a global effort.

  • The distribution of funding for health care providers is just one example of complications with the sweeping $2 trillion CARES Act.

  • Two years ago in Michigan, she oversaw AFP operations to help the Republican-controlled legislature pass sweeping anti-union laws.

  • In 1695, still under an imposed silence, she died in a plague sweeping the capital.

  • The classic film that opens with a tornado sweeping through a Kansas farm made its debut 75 years ago in 1939.

  • These tensions run throughout the conference, but also throughout the “mindfulness” movement that is now sweeping America.

  • As the Ebola epidemic began sweeping through the region, fear and mistrust of the health workers in West Point escalated.

  • "Yes, Alessandro," she answered faintly, the gusts sweeping her voice like a distant echo past him.

  • He stood aside, and bending from the waist he made a sweeping gesture towards the door with the hand that held his hat.

  • “Yes; that would be indispensible,” said the baron, whose eyes were sweeping the room from corner to corner, fiercely and swiftly.

  • She did shout for joy, as with a sweeping stroke or two she lifted her body to the surface of the water.

  • The wave of religious fanaticism sweeping over the land might recede as rapidly as it had risen.