THESAURUS
sweep
Derby, Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, S-curve, aberrancy, aberration, advance, airscape, ambit, arc, arch, ball the jack, barrel, be effortless, be painless, bend, bend back, bending, bias, bingo, boom, bow, bowing, bowl, bowl along, branching off, breeze, breeze along, broom, brush, brush by, brush off, bunt, butt, carry, cascade, cataract, chase, chimney
sweep, circle, circuitousness, cityscape, class lottery, clean, cleanser, clear, clear sight, clearance, clip, cloudscape, coast, coasting, color vision, compass, cone vision, conflexure, corner, course, cover, crook, crossing sweeper, curl, curvature, curve, cut along, dash, day vision, daylight vision, declination, decurve, deflect, deflection, deluge, demolish, departure, depredate, despoil, destroy, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, diapason, digression, discernment, discursion, divagation, divarication, divergence, diversion, do, dogleg, dome, double, draft lottery, drawing, drift, drifting, drive, embow, encompass, engulf, environ, errantry, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, extend, extension, extent, eye, eye-mindedness, eyesight, farsight, farsightedness, field of view, field of vision, flat race, flection, fleece, fleet, flex, flexure, flit, flood, flounce, flow, flowing, flue cleaner, fly, fly low, foot, forage, foray, forward, freeboot, gamut, geanticline, geosyncline, give no trouble, glance, glide, gliding, glissade, go, go easily, go fast, go like clockwork, go out, go over, grab bag, graze, gut, hairpin, hairpin turn, handicap, handicap race, harness race, highball, hold, home on, hook, horizon, horse race, hump, hunch, hurdle race, ice-skate, identify, impel, incurvate, incurve, indirection, inflect, inflection, interest lottery, inundate, keen sight, ken, keno, kiss, landscape, lie, lookout, loop, loot, lottery, lotto, make knots, map, maraud, march, meander, measure, move, night vision, nip, number lottery, numbers pool, oar, obliquity, orbit, outlook, outstrip the wind, overbrim, overflow, overpass, overrun, overwhelm, oxbow, paddle, panorama, parade, pass, pass over, pass through, patrol, pedal, perambulate, perception, peregrinate, pererrate, pererration, peripheral field, peripheral vision, perspective, perspicacity, perspicuity, photopia, pick up, pillage, pinpoint, plate race, plunder, ply, pole, pour it on, pour out, pour over, power of sight, present no difficulties, prey on, propel, prospect, purge, purse race, purview, push, quarter-horse race, quick sight, radius, raffle, raid, rambling, range, range over, ransack, ravage, raven, ravish, reach, reach out, receive, reconnoiter, recurve, reflect, reflection, reflex, register, reive, remove, retroflex, rifle, rip, riverscape, rod vision, roll, roller-skate, round, row, run, run over, run smoothly, sack, sag, sail, sailing, scale, scan, scape, scavenger, scene, scenery, scenic view, scope, scorch, scotopia, scour, scour the country, scout, scrape, scull, seascape, seeing, sense of sight, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, shove, shunt, sideslip, sight, sightedness, sizzle, skate, skateboard, skating, skew, ski, skid, skiing, skim, skyscape, slant, sled, sledding, sleigh, slide, sliding, slip, slipping, slither, slithering, slop, slosh, span, spectrum, speed, spill, spill out, spill over, spoil, spoliate, spot, spread, stake, stake race, steeplechase, steering oar, storm along, straddle, straying, street sweeper, stretch, stretch out, stroke, submerge, surround, swag, swamp,
sweep along,
sweep away,
sweep out,
sweep up, sweeper, sweeping, sweepstake, sweepstakes, swerve, swerving, swing, swinging, swoop, tack, take in, tear, tear along, thrust, thrust out, thunder along, tidy up, toboggan, tobogganing, tombola, tontine, touch lightly, touch upon, townscape, track, transit, travel over, travel through, traverse, treadle, trigger, troll, trotting race, trundle, tune in, turn, turning, twilight vision, twist, unobstructed vision, vacuum, vacuum-clean, variation, vault, veer, view, vision, vista, visual acuity, visual field, visual sense, voyage, wandering, warp, waterscape, whelm, whisk, whitewing, whiz, wind, wing, wipe out, work well, yaw, zigzag, zing, zip, zoom
ROGET THESAURUS
sweep
Cleanness
N
cleanness, cleanliness, purity, cleaning, purification, defecation, purgation, lustration, detersion, abstersion, epuration, mundation, ablution, lavation, colature, disinfection, drainage, sewerage, lavatory, laundry, washhouse, washerwoman, laundress, dhobi, laundryman, washerman, scavenger, dustman,
sweep, white wings brush, broom, besom, mop, rake, shovel, sieve, riddle, screen, filter, blotter, napkin, cloth, maukin, malkin, handkerchief, towel, sudary, doyley, doily, duster, sponge, mop, swab, cover, drugget, wash, lotion, detergent, cathartic, purgative, purifier, disinfectant, aperient, benzene, benzine benzol, benolin, bleaching powder, chloride of lime, dentifrice, deobstruent, laxative, clean, cleanly, pure, immaculate, spotless, stainless, taintless, trig, without a stain, unstained, unspotted, unsoiled, unsullied, untainted, uninfected, sweet, sweet as a nut, neat, spruce, tidy, trim, gimp, clean as a new penny, like a cat in pattens, cleaned, kempt, abstergent, cathartic, cleansing, purifying, neatly, clean as a whistle.
VB
be clean, render clean, clean, cleanse, mundify, rinse, wring, flush, full, wipe, mop, sponge, scour, swab, scrub, brush up, wash, lave, launder, buck, absterge, deterge, decrassify, clear, purify, depurate, despumate, defecate, purge, expurgate, elutriate, lixiviate, edulcorate, clarify, refine, rack, filter, filtrate, drain, strain, disinfect, fumigate, ventilate, deodorize, whitewash, castrate, emasculate, sift, winnow, pick, weed, comb, rake, brush,
sweep, rout out, clear out,
sweep out, make a clean
sweep of.
Uncleanness
N
uncleanness, impurity, immundity, immundicity, impurity, defilement, contamination, defoedation, soilure, soiliness, abomination, leaven, taint, tainture, fetor, decay, putrescence, putrefaction, corruption, mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo, slovenry, slovenliness, squalor, dowdy, drab, slut, malkin, slattern, sloven, slammerkin, slammock, slummock, scrub, draggle-tail, mudlark, dust-man,
sweep, beast, dirt, filth, soil, slop, dust, cobweb, flue, smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff, sossle, sozzle, sordes, dregs, grounds, lees, argol, sediment, settlement heeltap, dross, drossiness, mother, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders, recrement, slag, scum, froth, hogwash, ditchwater, dishwater, bilgewater, rinsings, cheeseparings, sweepings, offscourings, outscourings, off scum, caput mortuum, residuum, sprue, fecula, clinker, draff, scurf, scurfiness, exuviae, morphea, fur, furfur, dandruff, tartar, riffraff, vermin, louse, flea, bug, chinch, mud, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh, sposh, spawn, offal, gurry, lientery, garbage, carrion, excreta, slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria, faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, shit, sewage, sewerage, muck, coprolite, guano, manure, compost, dunghill, colluvies, mixen, midden, bog, laystall, sink, privy, jakes, toilet, john, head, cess, cesspool, sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer, Cloacina, dust hole, sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable, sink of corruption, slum, rookery, dirty, filthy, grimy, unclean, impure, soiled, not to be handled with kid gloves, dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, smoky, thick, turbid, dreggy, slimy, mussy, slovenly, untidy, messy, uncleanly, unkempt, sluttish, dowdy, draggle-tailed, uncombed, unscoured, unswept, unwiped, unwashed, unstrained, unpurified, squalid, lutose, slammocky, slummocky, sozzly, nasty, coarse, foul, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky, reechy, fetid, decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty, putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied, saprogenic, saprogenous, purulent, carious, peccant, fecal, feculent, stercoraceous, excrementitious, scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous, gory, bloody, rotting, rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese, crapulous, gross, fimetarious, fimicolous, they that touch pitch will be defiled.
Stealing
VB
steal, thieve, rob, mug, purloin, pilfer, filch, prig, bag, nim, crib, cabbage, palm, abstract, appropriate, plagiarize, convey away, carry off, abduct, kidnap, crimp, make off with, walk off with, run off with, run away with, spirit away, seize, plunder, pillage, rifle, sack, loot, ransack, spoil, spoliate, despoil, strip,
sweep, gut, forage, levy blackmail, pirate, pickeer, maraud, lift cattle, poach, smuggle, run, badger, bail up, hold up, stick up, bunco, bunko, filibuster, swindle, peculate, embezzle, sponge, mulct, rook, bilk, pluck, pigeon, fleece, defraud, obtain under false pretenses, live by one's wits, rob Peter to pay Paul, borrow of Peter to pay Paul, set a thief to catch a thief, disregard the distinction between meum and tuum, fence, launder, launder money.
Space
N
space, extension, extent, superficial extent, expanse, stretch, hyperspace, room, scope, range, field, way, expansion, compass,
sweep, swing, spread, dimension, length, distance, size, volume, hypervolume, latitude, play, leeway, purchase, tolerance, room for maneuver, spare room, elbow room, house room, stowage, roomage, margin, opening, sphere, arena, open space, free space, void, waste, wildness, wilderness, moor, moorland, campagna, abyss, unlimited space, infinity, world, ubiquity, length and breadth of the land, proportions, acreage, acres, acres and perches, roods and perches, hectares, square miles, square inches, square yards, square centimeters, square meters, yards (clothing), ares, arpents, spacious, roomy, extensive, expansive, capacious, ample, widespread, vast, world-wide, uncircumscribed, boundless, shoreless, trackless, pathless, extended, extensively, wherever, everywhere, far and near, far and wide, right and left, all over, all the world over, throughout the world, throughout the length and breadth of the land, under the sun, in every quarter, in all quarters, in all lands, here there and everywhere, from pole to pole, from China to Peru, from Indus to the pole, from Dan to Beersheba, from end to end, on the face of the earth, in the wide world, from all points of the compass, to the four winds, to the uttermost parts of the earth.
Curvature
N
curvature, curvity, curvation, incurvature, incurvity, incurvation, bend, flexure, flexion, flection, conflexure, crook, hook, bought, bending, deflection, deflexion, inflection, inflexion, concameration, arcuation, devexity, turn, deviation, detour,
sweep, curl, curling, bough, recurvity, recurvation, sinuosity, kink, carve, arc, arch, arcade, vault, bow, crescent, half-moon, lunule, horseshoe, loop, crane neck, parabola, hyperbola, helix, spiral, catenary, festoon, conchoid, cardioid, caustic, tracery, arched ceiling, arched roof, bay window, bow window, sine curve, spline, spline curve, spline function, obliquity, curved, curviform, curvilineal, curvilinear, devex, devious, recurved, recurvous, crump, bowed, vaulted, hooked, falciform, falcated, semicircular, crescentic, sinusoid, parabolic, paraboloid, luniform, lunular, semilunar, conchoidal, helical, double helical, spiral, kinky, cordiform, cordated, cardioid, heart shaped, bell shaped, boat shaped, crescent shaped, lens shaped, moon shaped, oar shaped, shield shaped, sickle shaped, tongue shaped, pear shaped, fig shaped, kidney-shaped, reniform, lentiform, lenticular, bow-legged, oblique, circular, aduncated, arclike, arcuate, arched, beaked, bicorn, bicornuous, bicornute, clypeate, clypeiform, cymbiform, embowed, galeiform, hamate, hamiform, hamous, hooked, linguiform, lingulate, lobiform, lunate, navicular, peltate, remiform, rhamphoid, rostrate, rostriferous, rostroid, scutate, scaphoid, uncate, unguiculate, unguiform.
VB
be curved curve,
sweep, sway, swag, sag, deviate, curl, turn, reenter, render curved, flex, bend, curve, incurvate, inflect, deflect, scatter, refract (light), crook, turn, round, arch, arcuate, arch over, concamerate, bow, curl, recurve, frizzle, rotundity, convexity.
Velocity
VB
move quickly, trip, fisk, speed, hie, hasten, post, spank, scuttle, scud, scuddle, scour, scour the plain, scamper, run like mad, beat it, fly, race, run a race, cut away, shot, tear, whisk, zoom, swoosh,
sweep, skim, brush, cut along, bowl along, barrel along, barrel, scorch, burn up the track, rush, dash on, dash off, dash forward, bolt, trot, gallop, amble, troll, bound, flit, spring, dart, boom, march in quick time, march in double time, ride hard, get over the ground, hurry, accelerate, put on, quicken, quicken one's pace, mend one's pace, clap spurs to one's horse, make haste, make rapid strides, make forced marches, make the best of one's way, put one's best leg foremost, stir one's stumps, wing one's way, set off at a score, carry sail, crowd sail, go off like a shot, go like a shot, go ahead, gain ground, outstrip the wind, fly on the wings of the wind, keep up with, keep pace with, outstrip, outmarch.
Deviation
N
deviation, swerving, obliquation, warp, refraction, flection, flexion,
sweep, deflection, deflexure, declination, diversion, digression, depart from, aberration, divergence, zigzag, detour, divagation, wandering, vagrancy, evagation, bypaths and crooked ways, byroad, sidling, knight's move at chess, deviating, aberrant, errant, excursive, discursive, devious, desultory, loose, rambling, stray, erratic, vagrant, undirected, circuitous, indirect, zigzag, crab-like, astray from, round about, wide of the mark, to the right about, all manner of ways, circuitously, obliquely, sideling, like the move of the knight on a chessboard.