sweep off

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Verb

sweep off - overwhelm emotionally; "Her swept her away"

impress, strike, affect, move - have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd"

Translations

w>sweep off

vi → davonrauschen; (car, plane) → davonschießen; (majestically) → davongleiten; (skier) → davonfegen

vt sep vase, clock → herunterfegen; to sweep somebody off somewhere → jdn irgendwohin entführen; the children were swept off to bed → die Kinder wurden schleunigst ins Bett gesteckt (inf) → or geschickt; to sweep somebody off his/her feet (lit) → jdn umreißen; (fig) audience → jdn begeistern; he swept her off her feet (fig) → sie hat sich Hals über Kopf in ihn verliebt (inf)

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It was too dark in these storage places to see well, but a man could run his hand over these piles of meat and sweep off handfuls of the dried dung of rats.

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You were to have no capital punishment, but were first to sweep off the face of the earth all legislators, jurists, and judges, who were of the contrary opinion.

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"Nothing but vast wisdom and unlimited power should dare to sweep off men in multitudes," he added; "for it is only the one that can know the necessity of the judgment; and what is there, short of the other, that can replace the creatures of the Lord?

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Misbah was himself guilty as he gloved a reverse sweep off Bishoo after hitting three fours and a six.