carry away

verb

1. to remove forcefully
2. usually passive to cause (a person) to lose self-control
3. usually passive to delight or enrapture

   he was carried away by the music

Idioms and Phrases

Move or excite greatly. This expression is usually used in the passive, be carried away , as in The eulogy was so touching we were carried away , or Take it easy; don't get carried away and overdo . [Late 1500s]

Example Sentences

To carry away fruit or bonbons from the table is a sign of low breeding.

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A strainer of bark cloth is plunged into it at times, and wrung out so as to carry away the small fragments of root.

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Nothing stirred visibly and the wind would carry away any warning scent.

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But it is common for them to destroy ten times as much as they can eat or carry away.

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Bathing at the river-side he found four hundred young men striving in vain to carry away a tree which they had cut.

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Related Words

• abolish
• clear away
• cut out
• delete
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• eliminate
• erase
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• expel
• extract
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• oust
• pull out
• raise
• separate
• ship
• take out
• transfer