carry off
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
be successful; achieve a goal
She succeeded in persuading us all
Types & categories
- bring home the bacon hypernym
Related & opposite
- fail antonym
Sense 2 verb
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
Types & categories
- remove hypernym
- spirit away hyponym
- spirit away hyponym
- whisk away hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 verb
kill in large numbers
the plague wiped out an entire population
Types & categories
- kill hypernym
Related & opposite
- annihilation derivation
- decimation derivation
- annihilation derivation
- extermination derivation
- wipeout derivation
- annihilator derivation
- withering derivation
- decimate verb group
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | fail |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | bring home the bacon |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | fetch |
| 2 | entails | Related & opposite | leave |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | remove |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | spirit away |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | spirit away |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | whisk away |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | annihilation |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | decimation |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | annihilation |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | extermination |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | wipeout |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | annihilator |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | withering |
| 3 | verb group | Related & opposite | decimate |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | kill |