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English to English verb
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be successful; achieve a goal |
• She succeeded in persuading us all
• I managed to carry the box upstairs
• She pulled it off, even though we never thought her capable of it
• The pianist negociated the difficult runs
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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
• The car carried us off to the meeting
• I'll take you away on a holiday
• I got carried away when I saw the dead man and I started to cry
source: wordnet30 Example:
• the plague wiped out an entire population
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