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carry off

verb

1. kill in large numbers

- the plague wiped out an entire population

• Hypernyms: ↑kill

• Verb Group: ↑decimate

• Verb Frames:

- Somebody ——s somebody

- Something ——s somebody

2. remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state

- 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

• Ant: ↑bring (for: ↑take away)

• Hypernyms: ↑remove, ↑take, ↑take away, ↑withdraw

• Entailment: ↑leave, ↑go forth, ↑go away

• Verb Frames:

- Somebody ——s something

- Somebody ——s somebody

- Something ——s somebody

- Something ——s something

3. be successful; achieve a goal

- 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

• Ant: ↑fail (for: ↑manage)

• Verb Frames:

- Somebody ——s something

- 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

Useful english dictionary. 2012.