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English verb: carry away | |||
| 1. | carry away (contact) remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state | ||
| Samples | 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. | ||
| Synonyms | bear away, bear off, carry off, take away | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | remove, take, take away, withdraw | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | spirit away, spirit away, spirit off, whisk away, whisk off | ||
| Entail | go away, go forth, leave | ||
| Antonyms | fetch, bring, get, convey | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
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