Synonyms of carry off

carry off

verb

1

as in to fulfil

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• fulfil
• fulfill
• perform
• accomplish
• execute
• achieve
• do
• carry out
• make
• pull off
• implement
• put through
• follow through (with)
• bring off
• prosecute
• go through
• commit
• negotiate
• complete
• bring about
• compass
• perpetrate
• finish
• realize
• engage (in)
• effect
• work (at)
• practice
• effectuate
• practise
• ace
• attain
• wind up
• repeat
• nail
• end
• reenact
• actualize
• reduplicate

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• fail
• slight
• skimp
• slur

2

as in to destroy

to deprive of life

pray that the pestilence does not carry off any more souls than it already has

Synonyms & Similar Words

• destroy
• kill
• slay
• dispatch
• fell
• take
• do away with
• do for
• claim
• make away with
• cut down
• take out
• do in
• put away
• murder
• slaughter
• kill off
• blot out
• croak
• bump off
• rub out
• assassinate
• finish
• off
• waste
• butcher
• neutralize
• knock off
• execute
• massacre
• put down
• snuff
• get
• mow
• whack
• ice
• annihilate
• smite
• decimate
• terminate
• euthanatize
• suicide
• scrag
• martyr
• euthanize

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• restore
• raise
• revive
• animate
• resurrect
• nurture
• resuscitate

Examples of carry off in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

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

Then came the shocking events of Saturday evening, where a political rally in Butler, Penn., ended with two people dead, and Donald Trump being carried off by Secret Service agents with blood on his face. —Brian Bennett, TIME, 15 July 2024