carry off

Verb
  1. Be successful;
    Achieve a goal (synset 202528530)
    "She succeeded in persuading us all"; "I managed to carry the box upstairs"; "She pulled it off, even though we never thought her capable of it"; "The pianist negociated the difficult runs"
    is a type of: bring home the bacon, come through, deliver the goods, succeed, win - attain success or reach a desired goal
    same as: bring off, manage, negociate, pull off
  2. Remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state;
    Transport into a new location or state (synset 201436911)
    "Their dreams carried the Romantics away into distant lands"; "The car carried us off to the meeting"; "I'll take you away on a holiday"; "I got carried away when I saw the dead man and I started to cry"
    entail: go away, go forth, leave - go away from a place
    is a type of: remove, take, take away, withdraw - remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
    subtypes:
    same as: bear away, bear off, carry away, take away
  3. Kill in large numbers (synset 200471632)
    "the plague wiped out an entire population"
    is a type of: kill - cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
    same as: annihilate, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out
    verb group: decimate - kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies

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