sweep up
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
They were swept up by the events
Types & categories
- involve hypernym
Related & opposite
- imbroglio derivation
Sense 2 verb
take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
She embraced Catholicism
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | imbroglio |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | involve |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | borrowing |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | embrace |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | accept |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | fasten on |