carry off

verb

Definition of carry offnext
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

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

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Recent Examples of carry off On the next day of the match, Australian wicketkeeper Bert Oldfield was hit on the head and suffered a fractured skull while facing Larwood (to a conventional field) and had to be carried off the field. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Aug. 2026 An amateur game in Istanbul was halted earlier in 2026 when a seagull was struck by the ball mid-flight, prompting the home team’s captain to rush over and perform CPR on the bird before it was carried off the field for further care. — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 5 Aug. 2026 Fans booed when the squirrel was finally captured and carried off under a towel, but the team says the animal was released in fine health. — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2026 Shania Twain has performed in stadiums around the world and carried off not one but two Las Vegas residencies, but this summer, a smaller stage felt like a dream come true. — Amanda Wicks, Pitchfork, 25 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for carry off
Recent Examples of Synonyms for carry off
  1. fulfill
  2. destroy
  3. accomplish
  4. kill
  5. perform
  6. slay
  7. achieve
  8. execute
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  • The Incredible Hulk, the Thing, He-Man, Superman—these cartoon heroes must fulfill some kind of longing.
    — Gavin Francis, The New York Review of Books, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Other situations can involve employees exercising rights or fulfilling obligations protected by law.
    — William Jones, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of fulfill
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  • Noguchi, Nakashima, and Amino were adults on February 19, 1942, when President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which forced Japanese American families to quickly abandon or destroy their property and board trains to the holding centers.
    — Robert Sullivan, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Refineries in Russia have been destroyed or damaged by drone attacks.
    — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of destroy
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  • Now, having accomplished the feat at such a young age, Lamine Yamal is poised to cash in for years to come.
    — Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 6 Oct. 2026
  • The rise and fall of Joe Cool, the Camel cigarette advertising gimmick that launched a thousand teen smokers, was accomplished with a more top-down approach.
    — Kent Sepkowitz, STAT, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of accomplish
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  • On the politics, his statement summons a legacy-killing disaster by wagering that nothing will go wrong, when something likely will go wrong during his presidency.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Mothers Against Drunk Driving, or MADD, was founded in 1980 by a mother whose 13-year-old daughter was killed by an intoxicated driver.
    — Kent Sepkowitz, STAT, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of kill
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  • During the themed show, the dancers performed to many of Carey’s songs from over the years.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2026
  • His new project, Flop, aims to create a spot market for computing power, where participants are rewarded with Flop tokens for providing GPUs and performing AI inference.
    — Jenny Lee, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of perform
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  • And then the game starts, the nerves dissipate, and the opponent is methodically slayed.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
  • As global markets demanded higher performance thresholds, Gaydon answered with the ferocious Aston Martin DBX707, a high-velocity machine with premium luxury credentials plus supercar-slaying straight-line velocity.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of slay
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  • Thus, during training the goal is to minimize the difference between the forecast and what actually happens until an AI model achieves the smallest possible error.
    — Chanh Kieu, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Multi-agent systems (from Microsoft’s AutoGen to Claude Research’s subagents) have achieved limited coordination in this way over the past few years.
    — Michael Morris, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of achieve
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  • Hospital staff were working to save Pike's life and as of late Thursday were trying to clear the two doses of the drug that the state uses to execute prisoners, her lawyers wrote in a Friday filing in Davidson County Chancery Court.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Pike, who was sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, was set to become the first woman executed in Tennessee in 200 years.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of execute

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“Carry off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carry%20off. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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