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English verb: carry off | |||
| 1. | carry off (social) be successful; achieve a goal | ||
| Samples | 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. | ||
| Synonyms | bring off, manage, negociate, pull off | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | bring home the bacon, come through, deliver the goods, succeed, win | ||
| Antonyms | fail | ||
| 2. | carry off (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 away, 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 | ||
| 3. | carry off (change) kill in large numbers | ||
| Samples | The plague wiped out an entire population. | ||
| Synonyms | annihilate, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | kill | ||
| Verb group | decimate | ||
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