1. carry_off - verb
· 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"
Synonym(s): pull_off, negociate, bring_off, manage
Hypernym(s): succeed, win, come_through, bring_home_the_bacon, deliver_the_goods
2. carry_off - verb
· 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"
Synonym(s): take_away, bear_off, bear_away, carry_away
Hypernym(s): remove, take, take_away, withdraw
3. carry_off - verb
· kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"
Synonym(s): eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe_out, decimate
Hypernym(s): kill
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