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Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary
carry off
1. kill in large numbers
- the plague wiped out an entire population
• Syn:
eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate
• Derivationally related forms:
decimation (for: decimate), wipeout (for: wipe out), extinction (for: extinguish), annihilative (for: annihilate), annihilation (for: annihilate), annihilator (for: annihilate)
• Hypernyms:
kill
• Verb Group:
decimate
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
2. remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state;
transport into a new location or state
- 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
• Syn:
take away, bear off, bear away, carry away
• Ant:
bring (for: take away)
• Hypernyms:
remove, take, take away, withdraw
• Hyponyms:
spirit away, spirit off, whisk off, whisk away
• Entailment:
leave, go forth, go away
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
3. be successful;
achieve a goal
- 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
• Syn:
pull off, negociate, bring off, manage
• Ant:
fail (for: manage)
• Hypernyms:
succeed, win, come through, bring home the bacon, deliver the goods
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE (for: manage)
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