Thesaurus results for CARRIED AWAY

carried away

verb

past tense of carry away

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 Photos obtained by the New York Post show some injured people being carried away on stretchers and several others returning to the dock after the incident. — Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 9 Aug. 2026 Large debris carried away by the Big Thompson flood on July 31, 1976, caused significant damage to a nearby home. — Dillon Thomas, CBS News, 31 July 2026 Having father Sebastijan around means there’s never any danger of him getting carried away. — James Pearce, New York Times, 28 July 2026 Some people get carried away swiping their cards on discretionary items like clothes and home goods or leisure activities like dining out or going to the movies. — Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 22 July 2026 On Earth, most cooling happens through convection as heat transfers from a hot object into the air and is carried away as the warmer air rises. — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 15 July 2026 Nitrogen, one of the main nutrients needed for strong plant growth, is especially susceptible to being carried away like this. — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 July 2026 The energy from these events is carried away by particles of light (photons) spread across the electromagnetic spectrum, but also by neutrinos. — Robert Lea, Space.com, 10 July 2026 Flash flooding in southeastern Missouri wrecked a campground and carried away about a dozen people, according to local authorities. — Michael Loria, USA Today, 10 July 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for carried away

Verb

Prosecutors say the father suffered a gunshot wound to the back and was transported to a hospital for treatment.

— DeJanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
One man, found with a gunshot wound to the face in the parking lot, was transported to an area hospital for treatment.

— Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of transported

Verb

The look felt right at home on this press tour, adding to her incredible roster of recent looks that have left us mere mortals entranced.

— Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 16 July 2026
Four-year-old Juni Wahab was entranced by the sight of the swallows and cormorants swooping low overhead and the rushing twists of water.

— Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2026

Definition of entranced

Verb

At first spritz, you’re instantly enchanted and uplifted by sparkling, tart notes of pomelo and yuzu.

— Kara Nesvig, Allure, 12 Aug. 2026
Wilpattu, Sinharaja, and Yala, Sri Lanka Drawn to Sri Lanka for the leopard and sloth bear spotting opportunities found within Wilpattu and Yala National Parks, travelers are often more enchanted with the teardrop island’s birdlife upon arrival.

— Lydia Swinscoe, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of enchanted

Verb

One of the artists Olivier interviewed, Xang, rapped at blistering decibels to the delight and confusion of a couple hundred stylish black and brown kids.

— Mano Sundaresan, Pitchfork, 1 July 2026
In 2021, the actor first rapped on the group’s Good Guys, Bad Guys EP, using the name Frankie Pulitzer.

— Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2026

Definition of rapped

Verb

The 31-year-old rapper, a member of the megagroup NCT and the leader of its subgroup NCT 127, has seemingly always been fascinated by merging different genres to create a new song.

— Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 13 Aug. 2026
Questions around beauty and longing recur, as do keywords (such as ‘password’), names, references and scenic features, but what fascinated me most is that in principle each episode could be read as a little patchy universe on its own.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2026