Textual thesaurus for "sweep up"

(verb) adopt, embrace, espouse

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

She embraced Catholicism; They adopted the Jewish faith

(verb) embroil, drag, drag in, sweep, tangle

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