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sweepsnounpl. of sweep an area over which activity, capacity, or influence extendsMrs. Griswold has been a teacher for so long that the sweep of her influence extends across three generations of the townspeople ambits, amplitudes, breadths, compasses, confines, dimensions, extents, ranges, reaches, realms, scopes, widths gamuts, spectra(or spectrums), spreadsbailiwicks, circles, demesnes, departments, disciplines, domains, elements, fiefdoms, fiefs, fields, provinces, regions, specialties, spheres, terrainsfrontiershorizons, panoramas sweepsverbpresent tense third-person singular of sweepto move or proceed smoothly and readilythe wind swept across the plain without respite bowls, breezes, brushes, coasts, cruises, drifts, flows, glides, rolls, sails, skims, slides, slips, streams, whisks flies, races, rushes, speeds flounders, struggles limps, lumbers, plods, stumbles, trudgesshambles, shufflesstamps, stomps, stumps, trampslabors, toils to turn away from a straight line or coursefrom this point the mountain range sweeps to the northeast and extends into the next state arches, arcs, bends, bows, crooks, curves, falls off, hooks, rounds, swerves, trends, wheels circles, coils, curlicues, curls, loops, spiralsturns, twists, windsdeviates, veers straightens |