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单词 carrying 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

carrying off

verb

present participle of carry off
1
as in fulfilling
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
  • fulfilling
  • performing
  • carrying out
  • executing
  • achieving
  • accomplishing
  • pulling off
  • putting through
  • doing
  • going through
  • making
  • implementing
  • bringing off
  • bringing about
  • following through (with)
  • prosecuting
  • negotiating
  • committing
  • perpetrating
  • completing
  • finishing
  • compassing
  • realizing
  • effecting
  • winding up
  • engaging (in)
  • working (at)
  • practicing
  • effectuating
  • attaining
  • acing
  • repeating
  • ending
  • nailing
  • reenacting
  • actualizing
  • practising
  • reduplicating

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • failing
  • slurring
  • skimping
  • slighting
2
as in killing
to deprive of life pray that the pestilence does not carry off any more souls than it already has

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • killing
  • destroying
  • doing in
  • doing for
  • slaying
  • cutting down
  • doing away with
  • making away with
  • taking
  • taking out
  • putting away
  • dispatching
  • killing off
  • rubbing out
  • claiming
  • knocking off
  • blotting out
  • bumping off
  • felling
  • murdering
  • slaughtering
  • croaking
  • putting down
  • scragging
  • finishing
  • assassinating
  • wasting
  • neutralizing
  • executing
  • butchering
  • snuffing
  • offing
  • mowing
  • getting
  • icing
  • whacking
  • annihilating
  • decimating
  • massacring
  • smiting
  • terminating
  • euthanatizing
  • martyring
  • euthanizing
  • suiciding

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • raising
  • restoring
  • animating
  • reviving
  • resurrecting
  • nurturing
  • resuscitating
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