text: # sweep
  
  ## Anglais
  
  ### Étymologie
  
      Du vieil anglais swapan.
  
  ### Nom commun
  
  sweep \swiːp\
  
  * Ramoneur.
     * Chim-chimney, chim-chimney, chim chim cheree - A sweep is as lucky as lucky can be. — (Robert Stevenson, Mary Poppins, film de 1964)
  
  **Synonymes**
  
  * chimney sweep
  
  ### Verbe
  
  sweep \swiːp\
  
  * Balayer.
     * I swept the floor
  
      J'ai balayé le sol
  * Accaparer.
     * The film swept the Oscars.
     * Nevertheless, the win was so sweeping that Solidarity gained effective control of the government. — (Naomi Klein, The shock doctrine, Penguin Books, 2008)
  
  **Dérivés**
  
  * windswept (éventé)
  