The only thing that frees the country from this curse is a favorable wind; this blows them into the sea, where they drown and are swept up on the beach for days afterwards in great heaps.
We swept up the leaves which had blown into the shop.
force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action; "They were swept up by the events"; "don't drag me into this business"
{f} remove dust or dirt from the floor using a broom; embrace and take up the ideology or practice of a person and use it as one's own
take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own; "She embraced Catholocism"; "They adopted the Jewish faith"
If you sweep up rubbish or dirt, you push it together with a brush and then remove it. Get a broom and sweep up that glass will you? He started working for a gallery sweeping up and making the tea