SWEPT
What does "SWEPT" mean?
Past tense and past participle of sweep: cleaned or moved with a sweeping motion.
Meanings
- Past tense of 'sweep': cleared a surface with a broom or brush. He swept the porch and emptied the dustpan.
- Past tense of 'sweep': moved swiftly and forcefully across an area. A cold wind swept down from the mountains.
- Shaped in a smooth backward curve. The jet's swept wings cut its drag at high speed. technical
Did you know?
- Swept-back wings, now standard on jets, came from German aerodynamicist Adolf Busemann, who proposed the idea at a 1935 conference in Rome - five years before any aircraft flew with them.
Word origin
Irregular past tense of 'sweep', from Old English 'swapan'; the vowel change follows the same old Germanic pattern that gives 'keep/kept' and 'sleep/slept'.
Remember it
SWEEP loses an 'E' when the job is done: it's already been SWEPT.
A little poem
Last night's leaves are gone-
the broom remembers nothing,
the step stands bare.
haiku
Wordplay
- The chess champion who also did the housework was unbeatable - she swept every match and the kitchen too.
What it teaches
What's swept away leaves the cleanest evidence of what was once in the way.
Quick facts
What does SWEPT mean?
Past tense and past participle of sweep: cleaned or moved with a sweeping motion.
Is SWEPT a valid word?
Yes — SWEPT is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is SWEPT?
SWEPT has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does SWEPT come from?
Irregular past tense of 'sweep', from Old English 'swapan'; the vowel change follows the same old Germanic pattern that gives 'keep/kept' and 'sleep/slept'.
What can SWEPT teach us?
What's swept away leaves the cleanest evidence of what was once in the way.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.