sweep up

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	sweep up - force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action; "They were swept up by the events"; "don't drag me into this business" drag in, embroil, tangle, drag, sweep involve - engage as a participant; "Don't involve me in your family affairs!"
	2.	sweep up - take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own; "She embraced Catholicism"; "They adopted the Jewish faith" embrace, espouse, adopt fasten on, hook on, seize on, take up, latch on - adopt; "take up new ideas" accept - consider or hold as true; "I cannot accept the dogma of this church"; "accept an argument"

Translations

? sweep up

vi

(with broom) → zusammenkehren or -fegen; to sweep up after somebody → hinter jdm herfegen

(= move) the car swept up to the house → der Wagen rollte aufs Haus zu; she swept up in a Rolls Royce → sie rollte in einem Rolls Royce vor; a broad driveway sweeps up to the manor → ein breiter Zufahrtsweg schwingt sich zum Herrenhaus hinauf

vt sep → zusammenkehren or -fegen; (= collect up) objects → zusammenraffen; person → hochreißen; hair → hochbinden