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carry off
verb
Synonyms and Antonyms of CARRY OFF
1
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 accomplish, achieve, bring off, carry off, carry out, commit, compass, do, execute, follow through (with), fulfill (or fulfil), make, negotiate, perpetrate, prosecute, pull off, put through
2
to deprive of life <pray that the pestilence does not carry off any more souls than it already has>
Related Words bump off, butcher, cut down, finish, get, ice [slang], knock off, murder, neutralize, off [slang], put away, rub out, scrag, snuff, take out, waste, whack [slang]; annihilate, blot out, decimate, kill off, massacre, mow, slaughter, smite; assassinate, execute, martyr, terminate; euthanize (also euthanatize), put down; suicide
Antonyms animate
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