carry off Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. verb be successful; achieve a goal
   manage; negociate; bring off; pull off.
   
   • 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. verb remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state
   bear off; take away; carry away; bear away.
   
   • 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. verb kill in large numbers
   annihilate; decimate; eliminate; wipe out; extinguish; eradicate.
   
   • the plague wiped out an entire population

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