SWEEP Copy link • SWEEP 1. v. verrere (e.g., pavimentum, aedes, vias). To sweep down, detergere: to sweep off, abstergere: to sweep out (i. e., cleanse by sweeping), everrere: everrere et purgare (to remove by sweeping, as dung from a stall; and, to cleanse by sweeping, as, a stall): verrere (to sweep cleanse, e.g., a home): purgare: depurgare: emundare (general term t to cleanse): to sweep clean (figuratively, of plunder), everrere el extergere (e.g., templa of Verres; Cic.). 2. Act cf sweeping; by the verbs. A chimney-sweeper, *caminos detergendi artifox. Compass of a stroke, ambitus: circuitus: civcumactio. Space, spatium.