balayer

L'herbe s'étendait plate et ondulait sur la colline, comme si le vent l’avait balayé pendant de longues années.
The grass lay flat on the undulating hill as if it had been wind swept over many years.
Cette capacité avait balayé le géant au pouvoir dans ses jours de jeunesse et avait constitué le pouvoir lui-même.
This ability had swept the giant to power in its youthful days, and had constituted power itself.
En 1848, elle avait poignardé dans le dos la révolution démocratique qui avait balayé l’Allemagne et de vastes régions de l’Europe, et s’était alliée à une réaction féodale.
In 1848, it had stabbed in the back the democratic revolution that had swept across Germany and large parts of Europe, and had allied itself with feudal reaction.
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