| sweeping | | |
| n. (act) | 1. sweeping | the act of cleaning with a broom. |
| ~ cleaning, cleansing, cleanup | the act of making something clean.; "he gave his shoes a good cleaning" |
| adj. | 2. sweeping | taking in or moving over (or as if over) a wide area; often used in combination.; "a sweeping glance"; "a wide-sweeping view of the river" |
| ~ broad, wide | having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other.; "wide roads"; "a wide necktie"; "wide margins"; "three feet wide"; "a river two miles broad"; "broad shoulders"; "a broad river" |
| adj. | 3. sweeping, wholesale | ignoring distinctions.; "sweeping generalizations"; "wholesale destruction" |
| ~ indiscriminate | not marked by fine distinctions.; "indiscriminate reading habits"; "an indiscriminate mixture of colors and styles" |
| violent | | |
| adj. | 1. violent | acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity.; "a violent attack"; "a violent person"; "violent feelings"; "a violent rage"; "felt a violent dislike" |
| ~ hostile | characterized by enmity or ill will.; "a hostile nation"; "a hostile remark"; "hostile actions" |
| ~ unpeaceful | not peaceful.; "unpeaceful times"; "an unpeaceful marriage" |
| ~ convulsive | resembling a convulsion in being sudden and violent.; "a convulsive rage"; "convulsive laughter" |
| ~ ferocious, fierce, furious, savage | marked by extreme and violent energy.; "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle" |
| ~ raging, hot | characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement; very intense.; "the fighting became hot and heavy"; "a hot engagement"; "a raging battle"; "the river became a raging torrent" |
| ~ knock-down-and-drag-out, knockdown-dragout | extremely violent.; "a knock-down-and-drag-out fight" |
| ~ lashing | violently urging on by whipping or flogging.; "looked at the lashing riders" |
| ~ lurid | horrible in fierceness or savagery.; "lurid crimes"; "a lurid life" |
| ~ rampageous | displaying raging violence; often destructive.; "the hot rampageous horses of my will" |
| ~ ruffianly, tough | violent and lawless.; "the more ruffianly element"; "tough street gangs" |
| ~ slam-bang | violent and sudden and noisy.; "a slam-bang collision" |
| adj. | 2. violent | effected by force or injury rather than natural causes.; "a violent death" |
| ~ unnatural | not in accordance with or determined by nature; contrary to nature.; "an unnatural death"; "the child's unnatural interest in death" |
| adj. | 3. violent, wild | (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud.; "a violent clash of colors"; "her dress was a violent red"; "a violent noise"; "wild colors"; "wild shouts" |
| ~ intense | possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree.; "intense heat"; "intense anxiety"; "intense desire"; "intense emotion"; "the skunk's intense acrid odor"; "intense pain"; "enemy fire was intense" |
| adj. | 4. fierce, tearing, trigger-happy, vehement, violent | marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid.; "fierce loyalty"; "in a tearing rage"; "vehement dislike"; "violent passions" |
| ~ intense | possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree.; "intense heat"; "intense anxiety"; "intense desire"; "intense emotion"; "the skunk's intense acrid odor"; "intense pain"; "enemy fire was intense" |
| adj. | 5. crimson, red, violent | characterized by violence or bloodshed.; "writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days"; "fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing"; "convulsed with red rage" |
| ~ bloody | having or covered with or accompanied by blood.; "a bloody nose"; "your scarf is all bloody"; "the effects will be violent and probably bloody"; "a bloody fight" |
| sweep through | | |
| v. (social) | 1. ace, breeze through, nail, pass with flying colors, sail through, sweep through | succeed at easily.; "She sailed through her exams"; "You will pass with flying colors"; "She nailed her astrophysics course" |
| ~ make it, pass | go successfully through a test or a selection process.; "She passed the new Jersey Bar Exam and can practice law now" |
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