What is the meaning of sweep up?

verb

  • Force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action.
    • usage: "They were swept up by the events"; "don't drag me into this business"
  • Take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own.
    • usage: "She embraced Catholicism"; "They adopted the Jewish faith"
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