How to pronounce “sweeping”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• present participle and gerund of sweep
• [Noun]
• (countable) An instance of sweeping.
• (uncountable) The activity of sweeping.
• [Adjective]
• Wide, broad, affecting or touching upon many things.
• Completely overwhelming.
• Moving in a continuous motion, rather than by intermittent jumps. (For example, the second hand on a clock face may move either in the sweeping manner or in the ticking manner.)

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Similar Sounds

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