carryverb
uk/ˈkær.i/us/ˈker.i/carry verb (TRANSPORT)
A1 [ I or T ] to hold something or someone with your hands, arms, or on your back and transport it, him, or her from one place to another:
B2 [ I or T ] to move someone or something from one place to another:
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- Will you be able to carry all the shopping back home on your bike?
- Kangaroos carry their young in pouches.
- She was carrying a tray of drinks.
- Water slopped out of the bucket as he carried it up the stairs.
- They carried the wounded from the battlefield.
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Transferring and transporting objects
- bearer
- borne
- bring
- budge
- bus
- call for sb
- drop
- ferry
- freight
- pick sb/sth up
- put sb down somewhere
- road haulage
- route
- spirit
- tear 1
- tear sb away
- tote
- transfer
- transport
- transportation
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carry verb (HAVE WITH YOU)
B1 [ T ] to have something with you all the time:
More examples
- She still carries his photo in her purse.
- I don't usually carry much cash with me.
- He needed 100 stitches and still carries scars all over his body.
- He carries a British passport.
- So many young people round here carry weapons.
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Having and owning - general words
- -owned
- attach to sb/sth
- be endowed with sth idiom
- bear
- bearer
- belong
- belong to sb
- call
- claim
- endow
- hold
- interest
- mistress
- not/never want for anything idiom
- owner
- ownership
- proprietress
- revert to sb
- stake somewhere/sth out
- want
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carry verb (HAVE)
C2 [ T ] to have something as a part, quality, or result:
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- All investments carry with them some risk.
- Burglary carries a maximum sentence of 14 years' imprisonment.
- His words in meetings carry an authority.
- For children, obesity carries a stigma.
- Train travel still carries with it an aura of romance.
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Including and containing
- (right) down to idiom
- assimilate
- build sth in/into sth
- built-in
- cast
- cast your net wide idiom
- catholic
- extend
- factor
- factor sth in
- figure
- forget
- inbuilt
- incl
- pack
- package
- plug (sth/sb) into sth
- rich
- subsume
- throw sth in
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carry verb (SPREAD)
C1 [ T ] to take something from one person or thing and give it to another person or thing:
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Passing on illness & causing disease
- carrier
- catch
- communicate
- contagious
- epidemic
- incubate
- infect
- infected
- infest
- insalubrious
- mediastinum
- non-communicable
- prophylactic
- transmission
- transmit
- unhygienic
- vector
- verminous
- virulence
- virulent
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carry verb (SUPPORT WEIGHT)
C2 [ T ] to support the weight of something without moving or breaking:
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Physical supports and supporting
- backbone
- bearing
- bolster
- bookend
- buoy
- burden
- buttress
- cantilever
- groan
- pile
- pillar
- prop
- rafter
- runner
- scaffold
- scaffolding
- shore sth up
- stem
- stilt
- underpin
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carry verb (KEEP IN OPERATION)
[ T ] to support, keep in operation, or make a success:
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Backing, supporting & defending
- -backed
- argumentation
- bale out
- bear
- behind every great/successful man there stands a woman idiom
- buttress
- defensible
- endorse
- espouse
- fight your corner idiom
- right behind sb idiom
- speak
- sponsor
- stake
- stand by sb
- stand by sth
- stand shoulder to shoulder with sb idiom
- strike
- sympathize
- sympathy
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carry verb (WIN)
[ T ] to win the support, agreement, or sympathy of a group of people:
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Urging & persuading
- argumentation
- blag
- brainwash
- bring
- browbeat
- butter
- get sth out of sb
- incite
- persuasion
- pitch
- preach
- press-gang
- prevail on/upon sb
- proselytize
- rush sb into (doing) sth
- sucker sb into sth
- talk sb down
- talk sb out of sth
- twist
- work on sb
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carry verb (APPROVE)
[ T usually passive ] to give approval, especially by voting:
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Elections
- absentee ballot
- absentee vote
- absolute majority
- abstain
- abstention
- first-past-the-post
- franchise
- general election
- gerrymandering
- go to the country idiom
- landslide
- nominate
- rigging
- running mate
- safe
- scrutineer
- secret ballot
- show of hands
- stump
- vote of confidence
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carry verb (BROADCAST)
[ T ] (of a newspaper or radio or television broadcast) to contain particular information:
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News reporting & the press
- ambulance chaser
- city desk
- CNN
- court correspondent
- coverage
- desk
- hack
- lay
- lead with sth
- lobby correspondent
- muckraking
- news agency
- news conference
- reporter
- silly season
- spoiler
- story
- syndicate
- syndicated
- the gutter press
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carry verb (REACH)
[ I ] to be able to reach or travel a particular distance:
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General words for movement
- betake
- budge
- budge up
- circulate
- come
- gangway!
- go around
- head
- locomotion
- manoeuvre
- mill around
- mobility
- mope
- mope around (somewhere)
- move
- round
- slip
- steer
- sway
- travel
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carry verb (DEVELOP)
[ T usually + adv/prep ] to develop or continue something:
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Making progress and advancing
- a step forward idiom
- advance
- advancement
- ahead
- be cooking idiom
- betterment
- develop
- go great guns idiom
- graduate
- grow
- grow into sb/sth
- grow out of sth
- have come a long way idiom
- rise
- shape
- simmer
- speciation
- spread your wings idiom
- steer a course/path idiom
- step
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carry verb (MOVE BODY)
to move your body in a particular way:
carry verb (MATHEMATICS)
[ T ] to put a number into another column when doing addition
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Addition, subtraction, multiplication & division
- add
- add (sth) up
- addition sign
- associative property
- borrow
- carry sth forward/over
- coefficient
- deduct
- distributive
- divide
- divisible
- divisor
- long division
- minus
- multiplication table
- multiply
- plus
- power
- table
- times
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carry verb (BE PREGNANT WITH)
[ T ] to be pregnant with a child:
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Obstetrics: pregnancy
- anti-choice
- artificial insemination
- backstreet abortion
- child
- ectopic pregnancy
- embryo
- embryonic
- expect
- family
- fruitful
- full-term
- have a bun in the oven idiom
- IVF
- late-term
- pregnancy
- pro-choice
- pro-life
- surrogacy
- trimester
- trouble
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carry verb (AMERICAN FOOTBALL)
[ I or T ] in American football, to carry the ball forward across the field, gaining an advantage for your team:
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Phrasal verb(s)
carrynoun
uk/ˈkær.i//ˈker.i/US[ U ] the act of carrying a gun:
[ C ] in American football, an occasion when a player carries the ball forward across the field, gaining an advantage for his or her team:
Idiom(s)
carryadjective [ before noun ]
uk/ˈkær.i//ˈker.i/US specializedrelating to the carrying of a gun: