as in transported
to fill with overwhelming emotion (as wonder or delight)
the beauty of the music carried him away
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Recent Examples of carried away
Ten minutes into his playtime, he was being carried away in a stretcher.
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Stephanie Sengwe,
PEOPLE,
11 June 2026
While vacationing in Hawaii in 2013, Klum’s then-7-year-old son, Henry, and his caretakers were carried away by a riptide wave.
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Skyler Trepel,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 May 2026
She’s made a career out of being a normal person who knows a lot about technology but never gets carried away by sci-fi fantasies.
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Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
29 May 2026
But let us not get carried away.
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Bobby Ghosh,
Time,
27 May 2026
The franchise drew immense scrutiny for having Sabally walk off the floor instead of being securely carried away on a stretcher.
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Fiifi Frimpong,
New York Daily News,
27 May 2026
Some of these have gone viral on social media, like the drone which was grabbed out of the air before being carried away and dumped on a mountainside at an altitude of 10,000 feet.
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David Hambling,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
After the last garment was carried away, the 120,000-square-foot building sat empty for a year.
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Kansas City Star,
15 May 2026
The process is still ongoing and no one should get too carried away until an official announcement is made.
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Simon Johnson,
New York Times,
11 May 2026
Stephanie Sengwe,
PEOPLE,
11 June 2026
While vacationing in Hawaii in 2013, Klum’s then-7-year-old son, Henry, and his caretakers were carried away by a riptide wave.
—
Skyler Trepel,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 May 2026
She’s made a career out of being a normal person who knows a lot about technology but never gets carried away by sci-fi fantasies.
—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
29 May 2026
But let us not get carried away.
—
Bobby Ghosh,
Time,
27 May 2026
The franchise drew immense scrutiny for having Sabally walk off the floor instead of being securely carried away on a stretcher.
—
Fiifi Frimpong,
New York Daily News,
27 May 2026
Some of these have gone viral on social media, like the drone which was grabbed out of the air before being carried away and dumped on a mountainside at an altitude of 10,000 feet.
—
David Hambling,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
After the last garment was carried away, the 120,000-square-foot building sat empty for a year.
—
Kansas City Star,
15 May 2026
The process is still ongoing and no one should get too carried away until an official announcement is made.
—
Simon Johnson,
New York Times,
11 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for carried away
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Fire officials later said the lifeguard remained awake throughout the ordeal and was transported to a nearby hospital for treatment.
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Brooks was arrested and transported to the Parker County Jail.
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Netflix has a new #1 movie in its top 10 list, a romantic comedy that seems to have pleased both critics and audiences alike, far from a sure thing in that genre.
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Success was whatever pleased him that afternoon.
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The role required an actor fluent in Russian and English, a detail that delighted Kharlamova.
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Lady Emma Thynn, Martha Lady Sitwell, Mark-Francis Vandelli, Lottie Kane, Missè Beqiri, Kimi Murdoch, Myka Meier and Margo Stilley — most of whom had actually known each other for years — delighted viewers over a 10-episode season.
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The kids, entranced by their phones and tablets, don’t meet up anymore to play dress-up dolls, kick a ball around, or even just talk—not with whole virtual worlds and endless distractions at their eager little fingertips.
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For those discerning shoppers entranced not by fresh-off-the-runway finds (too common, too mass-produced), but, instead, garments with history and legacy embedded in their seams, these are holy grails.
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After more than five months of picket lines, the Writers Guild won a contract that satisfied its membership.
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Green Dot founder Steve Barr stipulated that his group’s schools would be union represented — but that commitment satisfied only a small number of opponents.
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Every young child is enchanted by the beautiful colors of the rainbow.
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Throughout the set, lasers, strobes and flashes enchanted the audience, visuals dancing alongside the music.
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England have rapped Stokes on the knuckles.
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Dasan Harris rapped an RBI single that beat the shift that gave OU a 2-1 lead.
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About 60 of the items on the list were lifelong dreams or adventures that had always fascinated him.
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Part of what fascinated me about their presentation was not only their refusal to kowtow to male desire, which for decades had a stranglehold on rock aesthetics, but a concomitant disavowal of commercialism.
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