a. Cleaning off surfaces, or cleaning away dust, dirt, or litter, as a broom does; moving with swiftness and force; carrying everything before it; including in its scope many persons or things; as, a sweeping flood; a sweeping majority; a sweeping accusation. -- Sweep"ing*ly, adv. -Sweep"ing*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]
[じっぱひとからげ;じゅっぱひとからげ, jippahitokarage ; juppahitokarage] (n, adj-no) lumping together all sorts of things; making sweeping generalizations; dealing with various things under one head