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单词 carry off
释义

carry off

verb

carried off; carrying off; carries off

transitive verb

1
: to cause the death of
the plague carried off thousands
2
: to perform or manage successfully : bring off
tried to look suave but couldn't carry it off

Synonyms

  • accomplish
  • achieve
  • bring off
  • carry out
  • commit
  • compass
  • do
  • execute
  • follow through (with)
  • fulfill
  • fulfil
  • make
  • negotiate
  • perform
  • perpetrate
  • prosecute
  • pull off
  • put through
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Example Sentences

the con artist would never have been able to carry off his schemes if it were not for the greed of his eager victims pray that the pestilence does not carry off any more souls than it already has

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1640, in the meaning defined at sense 2

carry off

verb

1
as in to fulfill
to carry through (as a process) to completion the con artist would never have been able to carry off his schemes if it were not for the greed of his eager victims

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance
  • fulfill
  • carry out
  • accomplish
  • perform
  • execute
  • achieve
  • pull off
  • do
  • put through
  • fulfil
  • make
  • implement
  • bring off
  • go through
  • prosecute
  • negotiate
  • commit
  • perpetrate
  • complete
  • bring about
  • follow through (with)
  • compass
  • finish
  • effect
  • realize
  • practice
  • effectuate
  • ace
  • engage (in)
  • wind up
  • attain
  • repeat
  • end
  • nail
  • practise
  • work (at)
  • reenact
  • actualize
  • reduplicate

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • fail
  • slight
  • skimp
  • slur
2
as in to destroy
to deprive of life pray that the pestilence does not carry off any more souls than it already has

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • destroy
  • kill
  • slay
  • dispatch
  • take
  • do for
  • take out
  • fell
  • cut down
  • claim
  • put away
  • kill off
  • make away with
  • rub out
  • murder
  • blot out
  • bump off
  • do in
  • slaughter
  • do away with
  • croak
  • waste
  • off
  • assassinate
  • finish
  • put down
  • knock off
  • butcher
  • neutralize
  • snuff
  • get
  • execute
  • mow
  • whack
  • massacre
  • euthanatize
  • annihilate
  • ice
  • scrag
  • decimate
  • smite
  • martyr
  • terminate
  • suicide
  • euthanize

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • raise
  • restore
  • revive
  • animate
  • resurrect
  • nurture
  • resuscitate
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