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[ verb ] force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action

Examples

"They were swept up by the events" "don't drag me into this business"

Used in print

(William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)

Everyone in Salem , saint and sinner alike , is swept_up by it .

Related terms

involve imbroglio

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[ verb ] take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own

Examples

"She embraced Catholocism" "They adopted the Jewish faith"

Used in print

(Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)

Enthusiastically , Americans have swept subliterary and bogus materials like Paul_Bunyan tales , Abe_Lincoln anecdotes and labor_union songs up as true products of our American oral tradition .

Related terms

accept take_up borrowing

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