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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. Take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
   "She swept up Catholicism";
   - espouse, embrace, adopt

Derived forms: swept up, sweeping up, sweeps up

Type of: accept, involve