carry off

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carry off Definition

• (v) 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"
• (v) 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 g
• (v) kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"

carry off Synonyms

• annihilate
• bear away
• bear off
• bring off
• carry away
• carry off
• decimate
• eliminate
• eradicate
• extinguish
• manage
• negociate
• pull off
• take away
• wipe out