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Verb: sweep up
  1. Force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
    "They were swept up by the events";
    - embroil, tangle, sweep, drag, drag in
     
  2. Collect and remove by sweeping
    "She swept up the broken glass"; "He swept up the fallen leaves"

Derived forms: sweeps up, sweeping up, swept up

Type of: involve