carry off English

Meaning carry off meaning

What does carry off mean?

carry off

— verb (= negociate, manage) 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

— verb (= carry away) 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

— verb (= wipe out) kill in large numbers the plague wiped out an entire population

Synonyms carry off synonyms

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carry away

take away

bring off

bear away

bear off

steal

rob

carry

snatch

pull off

abduct

wipe out

take

seize

run away with

plunder

manage

kidnap

extinguish

eradicate

eliminate

decimate

annihilate

win

take to

pass off

negociate

go off

get

expropriate

confiscate

come off

bear

win out

whisk

transfer

tote

take off

take in

take hostage

steal by force

sieze

scoop

run off

remove

ravish

rape

range

profit from

profit