carry-off
Verbs
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(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
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(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
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(v) kill in large numbers
- the plague wiped out an entire population