carry away

verb

carried away; carrying away; carries away

transitive verb

1

: to arouse to a high and often excessive degree of emotion or enthusiasm

The girl was carried away by her pity.

—Winston Churchill

2

: carry off sense 1

Synonyms

• enrapture
• enthrall
• enthral
• entrance
• rap
• rapture
• ravish
• transport

Examples of carry away in a Sentence

the beauty of the music carried him away

Recent Examples on the Web

He can get carried away trying to do too much: stickhandling into trouble, shooting into shin pads, forcing shots from bad spots on the ice or trying to be too cute. —Scott Wheeler, The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025

Each time the calf slides off of the whale mother’s head, J35 makes the choice to dive down and pick it up again before the body is carried away by the water, per The Seattle Times. —Bailey Richards, People.com, 13 Jan. 2025

Anyway, do not get carried away, and make sure your eyes are wide open when using generative AI. —Lance Eliot, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025

Be mindful not to get carried away and use jargon that’s hard to understand or feels unnatural, Wilding added — simply be more direct. —Ashton Jackson, CNBC, 28 Dec. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1829, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

carry away

verb

: to arouse strong feelings or enthusiasm in