" carry off "

1: to carry through (as a process) to completion;

  * e.g., " ... 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 out,

•  commit,

•  compass,

•  do,

•  execute,

•  follow through (with),

•  fulfill,

•  make,

•  negotiate,

•  perform,

•  perpetrate,

•  prosecute,

•  pull off,

•  put through

•  Antonyms : 

•  animate

2: to deprive of life;

  * e.g., " ... pray that the pestilence does not carry off any more souls than it already has "

•  Synonyms : 

•  claim,

•  croak,

•  destroy,

•  dispatch,

•  do in,

•  fell,

•  kill,

•  slay,

•  take

•  Antonyms : 

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