Wiktionary
vb. 1 To transport away. 2 (context idiomatic English) To act convincingly; to succeed at giving the impression of (e.g.) knowledge, confidence, or familiarity. 3 To cause death.
WordNet
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" [syn: pull off, negociate, bring off, manage] [ant: fail]
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] [ant: bring]
kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population" [syn: eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate]
Usage examples of "carry off".
Lay siege to the church, break open the doors, carry off the damsel, rescue her from the judges, save her from the priests, dismantle the cloisters, burn the bishop in his palace—.
Humor is one of the hardest things to carry off in a story or a novel and especially in sf.
It flies away to other regions to seek food, and is sufficiently strong to carry off an ox.
Of his three enforcers, Saluzzo was the only one who could carry off the needed pose in that area.
Peeping thus, he soon made UP his mind that if at any moment the hall should be empty, he would at that moment rush in and attempt to carry off a dish.
It was evident that the bell-ringer had engaged to serve the Archdeacon for a specific time, at the expiration of which he would be sure to carry off his soul by way of payment.
With them they brought an enormous quantity of gold, all the stored-up treasure of the land which they were trying to carry off.
The persons who are in quest of the diamonds take their stand near the mouths of the caverns, and from thence cast down several pieces of flesh, which the eagles and storks pursue into the valleys, and carry off with them to the tops of the rocks.
And every so often barbarians from Media City, the community over the hill, come through and plunder everything they can carry off.
There was but one suspicious circumstance he could not carry off, and that was his companion.
News is often dispersed as thoughtlessly and effectively as that pollen which the bees carry off (having no idea how powdery they are) when they are buzzing in search of their particular nectar.
Colonel Holland, therefore, decided upon a retreat, but determined at the same time to carry off his royal captive, who was placed for safety at the rear.
We immediately took counsel with the renegade as to what means would have to be adopted in order to carry off the Moorish lady and bring us all to Christian territory.
The tails tapering down that way, serve to carry off the water, d'ye see.
Now, as the lightning rod to a spire on shore is intended to carry off the perilous fluid into the soil.