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sweep has 19 distinct synonyms spread across 11 of its 15 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for sweep come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge
a movement in an arc
“a sweep of his arm”