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[swi:p] 1. past tense, past participle - swept; verb1) (to clean (a room etc) using a brush or broom: The room has been swept clean.) pometati2) (to move as though with a brush: She swept the crumbs off the table with her hand; The wave swept him overboard; Don't get swept away by (= become over-enthusiastic about) the idea!; She swept aside my objections.) pomesti3) (to move quickly over: The disease/craze is sweeping the country.) pomesti4) (to move swiftly or in a proud manner: High winds sweep across the desert; She swept into my room without knocking on the door.) (pri)hrumeti2. noun1) (an act of sweeping, or process of being swept, with a brush etc: She gave the room a sweep.) pometanje2) (a sweeping movement: He indicated the damage with a sweep of his hand.) zamah3) (a person who cleans chimneys.) dimnikar4) (a sweepstake.) stava pri konjskih dirkah•- sweeper- sweeping
- sweeping-brush
- at one/a sweep
- sweep someone off his feet
- sweep off his feet
- sweep out
- sweep the board
- sweep under the carpet
- sweep up* * *I [swi:p]nounpometanje, čiščenje, zamah z metlo; (krožna) kretnja, zamah; zavoj (reke, ceste), vijuga, krivina; razprostiranje, proženje, figuratively razsežnost; vplivno področje; obseg; doseg, domet; vršenje (vetra), šuštenje (obleke); plural smeti; dolgo veslo (za veslanje stojé); ročica sesalke; (kartanje) dobitje vseh vzetkov, vseh nagrad; British English pometač, dimnikar; colloquially (= sweepstake(s)) stava, nagrada iz stav pri dirkah in igrah; figuratively umazanec; slang čemernež, nejevoljnežat one sweep — z enim zamahom, udarcem; naenkratto make a clean sweep of the table figuratively pomesti s čim, odpraviti kajII [swi:p]transitive verb & intransitive verbpomesti, pometati, omesti, ometati, (po)čistiti; oplaziti, rahlo se dotakniti; (o vetru) mêsti, briti; odstraniti, s poti spraviti (zapreke itd.); z očmi, s pogledom preleteti; opazovati; (topništvo) gosto obsipavati z granatami; (o valu) preplaviti (čoln); iti (z roko) (on prek); križariti (po morju); vleči se (po tleh) (o obleki); z mrežo iti (po rečnem dnu); stoje poganjati (čoln) z veslom; dobiti večino (skoraj vse glasove) (pri glasovanju)at a sweeping reduction commerce po zelo znižani cenito sweep all before one figuratively doseči popoln uspehto sweep the board — dobiti vse vložke pri kaki igri, figuratively pobrati vse nagradeto sweep everything into one's net figuratively vse (zase) pobratito sweep the seas — prepluti morja v vseh smereh, križariti po morjihto sweep the strings — iti, preleteti z roko po strunah glasbila, brenkati po strunahthe procession swept up the nave of the church — procesija se je veličastno pomikala po cerkvi proti oltarjuthey swept the river to find his body — preiskali so rečno strugo, da bi našli njegovo truplo
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