bear away

bear away
verb
remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state
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Their dreams carried the Romantics away into distant lands

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The car carried us off to the meeting

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I'll take you away on a holiday

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

Syn: ↑take away, ↑bear off, ↑carry away, ↑carry off
Ant: ↑bring (for: ↑take away)
Hypernyms: ↑remove, ↑take, ↑take away, ↑withdraw
Hyponyms: ↑spirit away, ↑spirit off, ↑whisk off, ↑whisk away
Entailment: ↑leave, ↑go forth, ↑go away
Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Somebody ——s somebody

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Something ——s somebody

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Something ——s something

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: to carry off or attain to in victory

bear away the spoils

: to change course so as to sail with the wind farther aft

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bear away
1. To sail away
2. To carry away
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Main Entry:bear

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another way of saying bear off

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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