Wiktionary
vb. 1 To gain; to carry off, as a prize. 2 To restrain; to keep from approaching. 3 (context nautical English) To remove to a distance; to keep clear from rubbing against anything.
WordNet
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 got carried away when I saw the dead man and I started to cry" [syn: take away, bear away, carry away, carry off] [ant: bring]
Usage examples of "bear off".
After Kathy shooed Bear off the middeck, we stowed the seats and changed out of our suits in what little privacy _Atlantis_ offered.
Wherefore, but to cheat and rob me, and my bride bear off a prize?
I predict that in three years from this time that youth yonder will bear off all the prizes at our examination.
However, to shorten the story, Friday danced so much, and the bear stood so ticklish, that we had laughing enough indeed, but still could not imagine what the fellow would do, for first we thought he depended upon shaking the bear off, and we found that the bear was too cunning for that too, for he would not get out far enough to be thrown down, but clung fast with his great broad claws and feet, so that we could not imagine what would be the end of it, and where the jest would be at last.
He and Walters would have to take the bear off in the full view of the other children.
He immediately grabbed a big club and beat the bear off the corpse of the dog--Blue Duck took the dog's tail and slung the dead dog in the direction of a number of dirty women who were sitting around a big cook pot.