Usually means: Remove or eliminate quickly, thoroughly.
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  1. sweep away: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sweep away: Merriam-Webster
  3. sweep away: Vocabulary.com
  4. sweep away: Wiktionary
  5. sweep away: Dictionary.com
  6. sweep away: Rhymezone
  7. sweep away: FreeDictionary.org
  8. sweep away: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. sweep away: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sweep away: Legal dictionary

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  1. sweep away: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (sweep away)

verb:  (transitive) To remove something by, or as if by, sweeping.
verb:  (idiomatic, transitive) To overwhelm someone emotionally; sweep someone off their feet.
verb:  (idiomatic, transitive) to completely destroy, to annihilate

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