ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Asweep

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adverb

Quick meaning: Asweep is an adverb meaning Sweeping, making a sweeping motion.

Meaning

Sweeping, making a sweeping motion.

Example Sentences

Where fierce hot winds have set the pine and myall boughs asweep
the line that goes wavingly asweep round the base of the holy mountain, separating it from the common earth.
[…] low and gently rolling hills, some forested, some asweep with velvety swaths of rippling, growing grain.
When winds are asweep through the Pecos Valley, they whimper and moan in the barbed-wire fence like troubled ghosts.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include awheel, waveward, screwwise, spireward, wing-and-wing.

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