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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: 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" [syn: pull off, negociate, bring off, carry off, manage] [ant: fail]
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" [syn: take away, bear off, bear away, carry away, carry off] [ant: bring, convey, fetch, get]
3: kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population" [syn: eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb Date: circa 1680 1. to cause the death of <the plague carried off thousands> 2. to perform or manage successfully ; bring off <tried to look suave but couldn't carry it off>

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you carry something off, you do it successfully. He's got the experience and the authority to carry it off. = bring off PHRASAL VERB: V n P, also V P n (not pron) 2. If you carry off a prize or a trophy, you win it. It carried off the Evening Standard drama award for best play. PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), also V n P

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

1. Remove, take away. 2. Destroy, kill.

Moby Thesaurus

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