💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Sweep away"
Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| wipe outverb | (transitive) To destroy (especially, a large number or complete set of people or things); to obliterate. |
| sweep offverb | overwhelm emotionally |
| sweep outverb | (transitive) to remove by sweeping or brushing. |
| sweepnoun | A single action of sweeping. |
| rake offverb | (transitive) To remove (something from something) in a sweeping motion. |
| sweep asideverb | (idiomatic) To ignore, brush off. |
| oversweepverb | (transitive) To sweep over; to cover by sweeping. |
| scournoun | Diarrhoea, in livestock; scouring. |
| whisk awayverb | (transitive) To remove something or someone suddenly and quickly. |
| wash awayverb | (by extension, figurative) To eliminate. |
| wipe offverb | (transitive, literally) To remove (something such as dirt) by wiping. |
| brush offverb | (idiomatic) To disregard (something), to dismiss or ignore (someone), as unimportant. |
| wipe awayverb | To remove or erase with a wiping motion. |
| blow awayverb | (transitive, idiomatic, US) To flabbergast; to impress greatly. |
| wave awayverb | (idiomatic) to reject or dismiss with a hand gesture |
| clear awayverb | (transitive) To tidy up, to remove mess or obstacles from a place to make it neat. |
| offscourverb | (transitive, rare, archaic) To remove by, or as if by, scouring; to scrub away. |
| scrape offverb | (transitive) To remove something by a scraping action. |
| sweep the deckverb | (card games, idiomatic) To clear off all the stakes on the table by winning them. |
| wipeverb | (transitive) To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.) |
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