Found 1 items, similar to carry off.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: carry off carry off v 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” [syn: pull off, negociate, bring off, manage] [ant: fail] 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” [syn: take away, bear off, bear away, carry away] [ant: bring] 3: kill in large numbers; “the plague wiped out an entire population” [syn: eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate]