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sweeping
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sweep·ing  (swpng)
adj.
1. Having wide-ranging influence or effect: sweeping changes.
2. Moving in or as if in a wide curve: a sweeping gesture; a sweeping glance.
3. Indiscriminate; wholesale: sweeping generalizations.
4. Overwhelming; complete: a sweeping victory.
n.
1. The action of one that sweeps.
2. sweepings Things swept up; refuse.

sweeping·ly adv.

sweeping [ˈswiːpɪŋ]
adj
1. comprehensive and wide-ranging sweeping reforms
2. indiscriminate or without reservations sweeping statements
3. decisive or overwhelming a sweeping victory
4. taking in a wide area a sweeping glance
5. driving steadily onwards, esp over a large area a sweeping attack
sweepingly  adv
sweepingness  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.sweeping - the act of cleaning with a broomsweeping - the act of cleaning with a broom    
cleaning, cleansing, cleanup - the act of making something clean; "he gave his shoes a good cleaning"
Adj.1.sweeping - taking in or moving over (or as if over) a wide area; often used in combination; "a sweeping glance"; "a wide-sweeping view of the river"
broad, wide - having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other; "wide roads"; "a wide necktie"; "wide margins"; "three feet wide"; "a river two miles broad"; "broad shoulders"; "a broad river"
2.sweeping - ignoring distinctions; "sweeping generalizations"; "wholesale destruction"
indiscriminate - not marked by fine distinctions; "indiscriminate reading habits"; "an indiscriminate mixture of colors and styles"

sweeping
adjective
1. extensive, broad, vast, expansive, panoramic, spacious the long sweeping curve of Rio's Guanabara Bay
2. indiscriminate, blanket, across-the-board, wholesale, exaggerated, overstated, unqualified, overdrawn, oversimplified sweeping generalizations about ability based on gender
4. decisive, complete, total, overwhelming, unconditional, unqualified, out-and-out The election was a sweeping victory for the secular centre left.
Translations
sweeping [ˈswiːpɪŋ]
A. ADJ [gesture, movement] → amplio; [generalization] → excesivo; [curve] → abierto; [view] → magnífico; [skirt] → de vuelo amplio; [change] → radical; [victory] → arrollador, aplastante
a large house with sweeping lawnsuna gran casa con amplias extensiones de césped
that's rather a sweeping statementeso es generalizar demasiado
B. N
1. (= action) → barrido m, barrida f
we gave it a sweepingle dimos un barrido or una barridalo barrimos
2. sweepingsbasura f (tras un barrido) (fig) [of society etc] → desechos mpl, escoria f
sweeping [ˈswiːpɪŋ] adj
[changes, reforms] → radical(e)
[generalization] → abusif/ive
a sweeping statement → une déclaration à l'emporte-pièce
[curve]
the long sweeping curve of Guanabara bay → la longue échancrure de la baie de Guanabara
sweeping
adj
gesture, stroke, curveweit ausholend; bow, curtsey, linesschwungvoll; glancestreifend; staircasegeschwungen; lawnausgedehnt; viewweit
(fig) change, reductionradikal, drastisch; statementpauschal; victoryüberragend, glänzend; to make a sweeping condemnation of somethingetw in Bausch und Bogen verdammen
n (= cleaning)Kehren nt, → Fegen nt
sweeping [ˈswiːpɪŋ] adj (gesture) → ampio/a; (statement) → generico/a; (changes, reforms) → radicale, ampio/a


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