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sweep up

English

  1. 🔊 take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
    “She embraced Catholicism”
  2. 🔊 force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
    “They were swept up by the events”

Similar words

espouse embrace adopt embroil tangle sweep drag drag in