carries off

verb

present tense third-person singular of carry off
1
as in fulfills
to carry through (as a process) to completion the con artist would never have been able to carry off his schemes if it were not for the greed of his eager victims

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2
as in destroys
to deprive of life pray that the pestilence does not carry off any more souls than it already has

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Recent Examples of carries off These are fed through a hopper into the reactor vessel to produce a self-regulating fission reaction and are cooled by helium gas that carries off the heat to a heat exchanger to generate steam for electrical generators. — New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for carries off
  1. fulfills
  2. destroys
  3. performs
  4. kills
  5. accomplishes
  6. slays
  7. achieves
  8. executes
Verb
  • One of their latest launches, the Biodance Eye Patches in Vita Niacinamide, fulfills that mission by bringing the brand’s hydrogel technology into a format that’s truly optimized for the delicate eye area.
    — Celia Shatzman, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
  • Petite and portable, the South Seas Rattan Side Cart fulfills the desire for a bedside table that’s slightly out of the ordinary.
    — Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 13 July 2026
Definition of fulfills
Verb
  • T cells, a type of immune cell that detects and destroys infected or abnormal cells, normally perform this inspection.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The white dwarf emits radiation and produces a giant gas bubble—the lion’s face—that destroys dust in its path.
    — Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of destroys
Verb
  • However, these uses remain future possibilities, and the team plans to test how the material performs in device-relevant forms.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Ogbonnaya, who performs under his first name, will be on the bill; so will No-Fi RPM, a live-mixing series that Curran and Farlee run with collaborators Estevan Medina, Dillon Kelley and Patrick Mitchell.
    — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of performs
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  • Agent Orange is a powerful chemical that kills weeds and acts as a defoliant, which the military used during the war in Vietnam to clear dense jungle and destroy food crops.
    — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 10 Aug. 2026
  • In retaliation for Kanan murdering her father Marvin (London Brown), Jukebox (Hailey Kilgrove) kills Raq, the woman who raised her.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of kills
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  • Donating, as many do, to check a box or as a reputation-building exercise accomplishes very little.
    — James Chen, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Such a commission would become another bureaucracy that accomplishes little beyond self-sustenance.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of accomplishes
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  • In East Rutherford, New Jersey, Beyoncé slays in all-white at the World Cup final between Argentina and Spain, while Justin and Hailey Bieber show off their streetwear style in New York City.
    — Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 20 July 2026
  • Kerry Washington completely dismissing Seth Meyers’s home life absolutely slays.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 19 June 2026
Definition of slays
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  • In testing, the electrolyzer achieves industrially relevant reaction rates.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Unfortunately, the simplicity this achieves within that vendor’s own ecosystem has also produced incompatible cross-vendor comparisons (see the graphic below as an example).
    — Jason Andersen, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of achieves
Verb
  • However, whoever executes customer interactions is still representing the face of the company.
    — Guy Yehiav, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Every time the user opens an OWA tab in the browser, the normal OWA sync process automatically executes OWAReaper.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 30 July 2026
Definition of executes

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“Carries off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carries%20off. Accessed 15 Aug. 2026.

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