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Carry Off
see synonyms of carry offVerb
1. bring off, carry off, manage, negociate, pull off
be successful; achieve a goal
Example Sentences:'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. bear away, bear off, carry away, carry off, take away
remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state
Example Sentences:'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. annihilate, carry off, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out
kill in large numbers
Example Sentences:'the plague wiped out an entire population'
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
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