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Carry off Common

Carry off has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Verb

Definitions
Verb
1

be successful; achieve a goal

"She succeeded in persuading us all"

"I managed to carry the box upstairs"

"She pulled it off, even though we never thought her capable of it"

"The pianist negociated the difficult runs"

2

remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state

"Their dreams carried the Romantics away into distant lands"

"The car carried us off to the meeting"

"I'll take you away on a holiday"

"I got carried away when I saw the dead man and I started to cry"

3

kill in large numbers

"the plague wiped out an entire population"

4

To transport away.

Example Sentences
"She succeeded in persuading us all" verb
"I managed to carry the box upstairs" verb
"She pulled it off, even though we never thought her capable of it" verb
"The pianist negociated the difficult runs" verb
"Their dreams carried the Romantics away into distant lands" verb
"The car carried us off to the meeting" verb
"I'll take you away on a holiday" verb
"I got carried away when I saw the dead man and I started to cry" verb
"the plague wiped out an entire population" verb
Related Terms
Antonyms
fail get
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
succeed remove kill
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
spirit away whisk off
Rhyming Words
off boff hoff doff coff loff moff koff toff goff geoff scoff swoff groff cloff droff gnoff feoff snoff nroff
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