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Meaning of word carry off from English dictionary with examples, synonyms and antonyms.

carry off   verb

Meaning : Be successful. Achieve a goal.

Example : 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

Be unable.

I fail to understand your motives.
fail

Meaning : Remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state. Transport into a new location or state.

Example : 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

Go or come after and bring or take back.

Get me those books over there, please.
Could you bring the wine?.
The dog fetched the hat.
bring, convey, fetch, get

Meaning : Kill in large numbers.

Example : The plague wiped out an entire population.

Synonyms : annihilate, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out