Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

asweep

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: asweep
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

Sweeping, making a sweeping motion.

Example Sentences

"the line that goes wavingly asweep round the base of the holy mountain, separating it from the common earth."
"Where fierce hot winds have set the pine and myall boughs asweep"
"When winds are asweep through the Pecos Valley, they whimper and moan in the barbed-wire fence like troubled ghosts."
"I thought of Mr. O’Neill, who was tall, pale and melancholy, with long white hair asweep, very like the picture of composers of my music book-covers."
"[…] low and gently rolling hills, some forested, some asweep with velvety swaths of rippling, growing grain."

Etymology

From a- + sweep.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: a

Questions

What does asweep mean?: Sweeping, making a sweeping motion.
Where does asweep come from?: From a- + sweep.

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