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carry off

car·ryoff

uncommon

verb

1.

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”
2.

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”
  • “;”
3.

kill in large numbers

  • “the plague wiped out an entire population”

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