carry off
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(verb) be successful; achieve a goal; "She succeeded in persuading us all"; "I managed to carry the box upstairs" |
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Synonyms: bring off, manage, pull off |
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Related Words: come through, succeed |
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(verb) remove from a certain place or environment; "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" |
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Synonyms: bear away, bear off, carry away, take away |
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Related Words: remove, spirit away, spirit off, take, take away, whisk away, whisk off |
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(verb) kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population" |
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Synonyms: annihilate, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
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Related Words: kill |
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