oversweeping

verb
/ˌəʊvəˈswiːpɪŋ/

Etymology

From over- + sweeping.

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of oversweep

  2. Overly sweeping.

    • Now, hearing the man made conreate by that virile voice, her whole nature roused to defiance and to an oversweeping desire to see him face to face.
    • In this low portion there is here and there a rounded upswelling of more resist ing rock, with trends, all telling the same story of a vast oversweeping ice-flood from the north.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for oversweeping. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA