ENSWEEP

Etymology

Verb

ensweep (third-person singular simple present ensweeps, present participle ensweeping, simple past and past participle enswept)

(transitive) To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly.

Source: Wiktionary


En*sweep", v. t.

Definition: To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. [R.] Thomson.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

25 February 2025

ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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