Clean and Sweeping

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Clean adjective - Trying all possibilities.

Usage example: police made a clean sweep of the area before the governor's arrival

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Sweeping and clean are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sweeping" instead the word "Clean" as a noun or an adjective.

Nearby Words: clear, cleaned, cleanup, clearing, cleanly

Sweeping adjective - Having considerable extent.

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Clean and sweeping are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Clean" instead the word "Sweeping" as a verb or an adjective or a noun.

Nearby Words: sweep, sweeper

Somewhat subverted when Longmire throws a fit by sweeping Branch's desk clean onto the floor and making a show of placing Ferg's nameplate on the now-clean desk before walking off like nothing's changed.

Source: Series / Longmire
Mundane Made Awesome; "The Buggy Boogie Woogie" is a song where Beefheart sings about sweeping the room clean from a bunch of spiders, complete with the sound of brooms in the background and it's catchy as hell!

Source: Music / Lick My Decals Off, Baby
Maiden Aunt: The ironically named Baby, Nicole's older sister.[T]he American Woman, aroused, stood over him; the clean-sweeping irrational temper that had broken the moral back of a race and made a nursery out of a continent, was too much for him.

Source: Literature / Tender Is the Night

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