carry off

carry off
verb
1. kill in large numbers
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the plague wiped out an entire population

• Syn: ↑eliminate, ↑annihilate, ↑extinguish, ↑eradicate, ↑wipe out, ↑decimate
• Derivationally related forms: ↑decimation (for: ↑decimate), ↑wipeout (for: ↑wipe out), ↑extinction (for: ↑extinguish), ↑annihilative (for: ↑annihilate), ↑annihilation (for: ↑annihilate), ↑annihilator (for: ↑annihilate)
• Hypernyms: ↑kill
• Verb Group: ↑decimate
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s somebody

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Something ——s somebody

2. 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, ↑bear away, ↑carry away
• 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

3. be successful; achieve a goal
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She succeeded in persuading us all

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I managed to carry the box upstairs

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

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The pianist negociated the difficult runs

• Syn: ↑pull off, ↑negociate, ↑bring off, ↑manage
• Ant: ↑fail (for: ↑manage)
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Somebody ——s to INFINITIVE

 (for: ↑manage)

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carry off [phrasal verb]
carry off (something) or carry (something) off
1 : to do (something difficult) successfully : to achieve or accomplish (something)

He tried to look cool but couldn't carry it off. [=pull it off]

She's the only actress I know with enough talent to carry this off.

2 : to win (something)

We carried off the prize.

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Main Entry: ↑carry

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