CARRY AWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does carry away mean? 

• CARRY AWAY (verb)
  The verb CARRY AWAY has 1 sense:

1. remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state

  Familiarity information: CARRY AWAY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARRY AWAY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

bear away; bear off; carry away; carry off; take away

Context example:

I got carried away when I saw the dead man and I started to cry

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

 Context examples 

A reduced-volume form of the liquid that is used in a dialysis machine to carry away waste products.

(Dialysate Concentrate Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

This time, as we went into the trough of the sea and were swept, there were no sails to carry away.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A branched system of pipes, typically those that attach to an engine to carry away exhaust.

(Manifold Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

The giant took the trunk on his shoulder, but the tailor seated himself on a branch, and the giant, who could not look round, had to carry away the whole tree, and the little tailor into the bargain: he behind, was quite merry and happy, and whistled the song: Three tailors rode forth from the gate, as if carrying the tree were child’s play.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I would gladly have taken a dozen of the natives, but this was a thing the emperor would by no means permit; and, besides a diligent search into my pockets, his majesty engaged my honour not to carry away any of his subjects, although with their own consent and desire.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The quaint old garden had sheltered many pairs of lovers, and seemed expressly made for them, so sunny and secluded was it, with nothing but the tower to overlook them, and the wide lake to carry away the echo of their words, as it rippled by below.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Something like tranquillity might now be hoped for; and accordingly, when Rebecca had been prevailed on to carry away the tea-things, and Mrs. Price had walked about the room some time looking for a shirt-sleeve, which Betsey at last hunted out from a drawer in the kitchen, the small party of females were pretty well composed, and the mother having lamented again over the impossibility of getting Sam ready in time, was at leisure to think of her eldest daughter and the friends she had come from.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)