carried off

verb

Definition of carried offnext
past tense of carry off
1
as in fulfilled
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 destroyed
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 Synonyms for carried off
  1. fulfilled
  2. destroyed
  3. accomplished
  4. performed
  5. executed
  6. made
  7. put through
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  • The team also discovered that about 15% of adults fulfilled the criteria for functional iron deficiency, which occurs when the iron in the body is stored away but not readily available for use.
    Lauryn Higgins, Health, 4 Oct. 2024
  • For Landry, who was elected on an anti-crime platform, the law’s passage fulfilled a campaign pledge.
    ProPublica, ProPublica, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of fulfilled
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  • Hundreds of homes and scores of roads were damaged or destroyed.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2024
  • More than half of the deaths were in North Carolina, where several feet of fast-moving water destroyed entire communities.
    NBC News, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of destroyed
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  • One that pops up repeatedly is getting from point A to point B, getting things accomplished.
    Dr. Rina Koshkina, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The regular season will be the true test, but the Warriors have accomplished much of their objectives in the preseason.
    Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2024
Definition of accomplished
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  • Latin music icon Marc Anthony performed and executive produced a special segment with salsa great Sergio George to pay homage to the tropical music genre.
    Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2024
  • The tribute was performed by Reik, Leonel García, Alejandro Fernández, David Bisbal and Carlos Rivera.
    Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2024
Definition of performed
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  • Especially when executed at a large scale of hundreds of code changes, this becomes a management challenge.
    Mike Waas, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Texas nearly executed Roberson in 2016, but the process was halted days before by the state's highest criminal court, which allowed a lower court to conduct an evidentiary hearing.
    Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2024
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  • Guns like the Whitworth were made even deadlier when optical sights were introduced during the Crimean War.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2024
  • How to see what COVID variants are dominant Not all of the CDC's data made the cutoff to be included on the first layer of the agency's new snapshot.
    Alexander Tin, CBS News, 4 Oct. 2024
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  • What’s more, some new or fully redesigned vehicles may not have yet been put through their paces; ratings are updated on an ongoing basis.
    Jim Gorzelany, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • To which Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could have been forgiven for wondering, as the call was put through: Which president?
    Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Oct. 2024
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