Carry Off

Definition: Carry Off

Carry Off

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".

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'll take you away on a holiday"; "I got carried away when I saw the dead man and I started to cry".

3. Kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population".

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Synonyms: Carry Off

Stealing

Convey away, carry off, abduct, kidnap, crimp; make off with, walk off with, run off with; run away with; spirit away, seize; (lay violent hands on).

Taking

Take away, carry away, bear away, take off, carry off, bear off; adeem; abstract; hurry off with, run away with; abduct; steal; ravish; seize; pounce upon, spring upon; swoop to, swoop down upon; take by storm, take by assault; snatch, reave.

Crosswords: Carry Off

Books

• Secularized Europe: Who Will Carry Off Its Soul?, No 6 (reference)

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Conduits under the highway to carry off flood waters, thus protecting the highway. U.S. 60, Navajo County, Arizona. Credit: Library of Congress.

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One brief sigh sufficed to carry off the entire burden of these dismal reminiscences.

I am not a man whose name nobody knows, and who comes into houses to carry off children.

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Expressions using "carry off": carry off the bays ♦ carry off the palm ♦ carry off the victor's crown ♦ To carry off. Additional references.

Albanian

ia dal në krye (manage, take care of), fitoj (come by, come into, command, earn, fight down, gain, gain upon, get, get the best of, make, net, obtain, outfight, overcome, overthrow, possess, profit, pull in, realize, score, score off, take, touch, win). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فاز بالجائزة, ‏خطف (abduct, gobble, hijack, kidnap, kidnapping, lift off, nobble, ravish, seizing, snatching, steal, whip). (various references)

Bulgarian 

спечелвам (acquire, attach, engage, enlist, fetch, gain, get, get the best of it, land, make, obtain, pot, profit, purchase, win, win through), вдигам (carry away, elevate, flush, get up, heave, heft, hoist, hold up, kick up, lift, pick up, pull up, purchase, put up, raise, rear, rouse, run up, take up, tip up, up), отвеждам (carry, derive, get away, lead, lead off, offset, pipe, sluice, take, take off, walk away), отвличам (abduct, abstract, call off, distract, divert, hijack, kidnap, reave, snatch away, steal away, take away, turn off), понасям (bear, bear off, bide, carry, digest, drag along, go, incur, play along, pocket, see, stand, stick, suffer, support, sweep away, take, tolerate, undergo). (various references)

Czech

získat (acquire, cajole, capture, come by, conciliate, drum up, elicit, enlist, gain, get, make, notch up, obtain, pick up, piece up, procure, pull, raise, score, secure, take, win), vyhrát (land, win), sklátit (cut off), odvést (divert, drain away, lead off, pay, take away, walk off, walk off with), odnést (carry, carry away, take away, take off). (various references)

Dutch

afvoeren (eliminate). (various references)

Finnish

voittaa palkinto (carry off the prize, win the prize). (various references)

French

véhiculer, s'écouler, emporter (carry, carry away, carry out). (various references)

German

wegtreiben (carry away, drift away, drive away, drive off, float away, float off), wegtragen (bring away, carry away), verschleppen (abduct, delay, draw out, go off with, protract, spread), rauben (abduct, bereave, foray, heist, maraud, pillage, plunder, ravish, Rob, steal), erbeuten (achieve, acquire, attain, captivate, capture, catch, get, get away with, grapple, obtain, pillage, prey on), entführen (abduct, elope with, hijack, kidnap, make off with, run off with, skyjack, snatch, to abduct, to kidnap), davontragen (carry away, suffer, to carry away, win), abfliessen (flow off). (various references)

Greek 

κερδίζω (earn, gain, get, outpoint, profit, profit from, scoop, win, win out), παίρνω (bear away, clear away, collect, contract, derive, get, take, take in), απάγω (abduct, kidnap, rape, ravish, whisk). (various references)

Hungarian

elvisz (carry away, lead off, take away, to bring round, to carry, to carry away, to check out, to take away, to take off, to take out, to take over), elragad (be carried away, fetch, to carry away, to entrance, to grab at, to grab for, to grab hold of, to snatch sg away from sy, to swoop, to transport). (various references)

Italian

vincere (beat, carry, come out on top, conquer, control oneself, defeat, discomfit, overcome, overpower, score, vanquish, win), portare a termine (bring off, carry out, do, see through). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

拐う　 (to carry off, to run away with, to sweep away, to wash), 拐う (to abduct, to carry off, to kidnap, to run away with), �"�う (to abduct, to carry off, to kidnap, to run away with), 切り出す (to begin to talk, to break the ice, to bring down, to broach, to cut, to cut and carry off, to quarry). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きりい� す (to begin to talk, to break the ice, to bring down, to broach, to cut, to cut and carry off, to quarry), きり� す (to begin to talk, to break the ice, to bring down, to broach, to cut, to cut and carry off, to quarry), さらう (to abduct, to carry off, to dredge, to kidnap, to practise, to rehearse, to review, to run away with, to sweep away, to wash away). (various references)

Manx

ymmyrkey ersooyl (bear off), cur lesh ersooyl (carry away). (various references)

Pig Latin

arrycay offay

Portuguese

ganhar (acquire, attain, earn, gain, gammon, get, make, score, win). (various references)

Romanian

cauza moartea cuiva, câştiga (acquire, bear away, bear off, carry, clean, come by, conciliate, conquer, convert, draw the winner, earn, find, gain, gain smb. over, make, obtain, overcome, purchase, score, steal, sweep, take the cake, win), ieşi bine (eventuate in, pan out), face bine şi cu uşurinţã, duce cu sine (carry along, carry away, catch away, drift, float), îndepãrta (avert, cast, chase away, clean, clear, cut out, discard, dismiss, drive away, eliminate, estrange, fence off, lay, move away, remove, retire, ward off, withdraw). (various references)

Russian 

утаскивать (lug away), уносить (carry away, carry out, remove, take away), похищать (abduct, kidnap, rape, reave, reive). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

razneti (disseminate), poneti (take), odneti (carry away, remove, take away, walk off with). (various references)

Spanish

cobrar (call in, cash, charge, collect, draw, gain, get, pull in, put on, receive, regain, retrieve, take up), matar (butcher, cut down, destroy, dispose of, do in, homicide, kill, knock off, lay, liquidate, murder, postmark, pot, shoot, slaughter, slay, swat), llevarse (bear away, bear off, blow away, bring away, carry away, drive away, get, take away, take off, walk away, walk off, wash, win), llevar a la tumba, llevar a la fuerza, llevar (bear, bear out, blow, bring, bring along, bring around, bring round, carry, carry on, cart, convey, deliver, drive, encroach on, enter up, ferryboat, fetch, have, have on, heave, hump, hunch, keep, lead, live, live through, live up, lug, model, run, see, spend, sport, take, take along, take over, tote, transport, truck, trundle, tug, wash, wear, whip, whirl, whisk), ganar (beat, benefit, best, carry, deserve, draw, earn, gain, get, get the best of, head, land, make, make money, profit, put over, reclaim, save, take, take on, throw in, walk over, win, win out, win the toss), arramblar, alzarse (arise, lift, raise oneself, rise). (various references)

Swedish

avleda (avert, deflect, derive, detract, distract, divert, drain, drain off, intercept, sluice). (various references)

Turkish

kazanmak (achieve, acquire, attain, be in pocket, bear the bell, carry away the bell, clean up, clear, come by, draw, earn, gain, garner, gather, get, get out of, land, net, obtain, pull off, purchase, realize, reap, take, win), kapıp kaçırmak, iletmek (conduct, convey, deliver, get over, hand in, put across, transfer, transmit), hakkından gelmek (get the better of, let smb. have it, overcome, overmaster, overpower, put away, vanquish), öldürmek (assassinate, bump off, croak, cut down, destroy, dispatch, do away with, do in, do one's job for one, drop, erase, exterminate, get, get rid of, give smb. his quietus, ice, kill, kill off, knock off, knock out, liquidate, make away with, murder, off, put away, put down, put to death, rub out, send to glory, shoot, shoot dead, slay, take off, take smb.'s life, waste, wipe out, zap), ölümüne yol açmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

відносити (carry away, drift), витримувати (age, bear, carry, hold up, last, live, sweat out, tolerate, weather), викрадати (ravish, reave, steal), вигравати (be ahead of, gain, win), зводити в могилу, забирати (remove, take away). (various references)

abducant, abducemini, abduci, abducta, abducti, abductos, abductus, abduxerunt, abduxit, abduxitque, aufero, deportare, fer, feram, feramur, ferant, feras, ferat, ferebant, ferebantur, ferebanturque, ferebat, ferebatur, feremus, ferens, ferent, ferente, ferentem, ferentes, feret, feretis, ferque, ferre, ferrent, ferret, ferri, fers, fert, ferte, fertis, fertur, ferunt, introferrent, lata, latam, late, latum, latus, rapere, raperent, rapiant, rapias, rapiat, rapiatur, rapiebat, rapiemur, rapiens, rapient, rapientem, rapientes, rapientis, rapiet, rapietur, rapit, rapite, rapitur, rapiunt, rapta, raptam, rapti, raptis, rapto, raptus, rapueram, rapuerant, rapuerat, rapuerit, rapuerunt, rapui, rapuissent, rapuit, subducitur, subductis, subtractionis, subtracto, subtrahatis, subtrahe, subtrahebat, subtrahent, subtrahere, subtrahet, subtrahit, subtraxerim, subtraxerit, subtraxerunt, subtraxisti, tulerant, tulerat, tulere, tulerim, tuleris, tulerit, tuleritis, tulero, tulerunt, tuleruntque, tuli, tulimus, tulimusque, tulique, tulissent, tulisset, tulisti, tulistis, tulit, tulitque. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: orfray.

-3 letters: carry, farcy, foray.

-4 letters: arco, caff, carr, coff, corf, cory, faro, fora, fray, ofay, orca, orra, racy, raff, roar, yaff.

-5 letters: aff, arc, arf, car, cay, cor, coy, cry, far, fay, for, foy, fro, fry, oaf, oar, oca, off, ora, orc, ray, roc, rya, yar.