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CARRY AWAY
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state
Example:
I got carried away when I saw the dead man and I started to cry
Synonyms:
bear away; bear off; carry away; carry off; take away
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "carry away" is one way to...):
remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)
"Carry away" entails doing...:
go away; go forth; leave (go away from a place)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "carry away"):
spirit away (carry away rapidly and secretly, as if mysteriously)
spirit away; spirit off (carry off mysteriously; as if by magic)
whisk away; whisk off (take away quickly and suddenly)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
