carry off meaning and definition

CARRY OFF verb

Definition of 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"; "The pianist negociated the difficult runs"
   • synonyms: bring off, manage, negociate, pull off
   • antonym: 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"
   • synonyms: bear away, bear off, carry away, take away
   • antonym: bring
3. kill in large numbers
   • "the plague wiped out an entire population"
   • synonyms: annihilate, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out