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

Examples of carry off in a Sentence

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

Recent Examples on the Web

For following a Pro-Palestinian protest at the Princess of Wales on Thursday opening night, there was a medical emergency at the Roy Thomson Hall premiere of Eden, with an attendee being carried off on a stretcher. —Natalie Sitek, Deadline, 7 Sep. 2024

The mob, blood-drunk, tries to carry off Maelor to earn the queen’s bounty, and the boy is torn limb from limb in the. —Erik Kain, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024

With fire and broadsword came pestilence, in the form of a sickness called Morrisania fever, which carried off many Refugees. —Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024

The preview sees one player driving off a cliff, another dangling from a skyscraper and Tamburello, 44, being carried off on a stretcher after a fall during a Challenge. —Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 16 July 2024

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1640, in the meaning defined at sense 2