carries off

present tense third-person singular of carry off

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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
Verb
  • Yamazaki discussed the film and why bringing one of his favorite kaiju, King Ghidorah, to the big screen in this installment fulfills a childhood dream.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 7 Nov. 2026
  • The payment fulfills a key condition attached to the royal pardon.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • Ghidorah, a dragon who arrived from outer space, destroys a city in the opening set piece and only gets more dangerous from there.
    — James Grebey, Time, 3 Nov. 2026
  • This overfeeding triggers a runaway nuclear explosion that usually destroys the white dwarf.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 27 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Republican hopes for keeping the presidency will be shaped by how the current president performs in the final two years of his second term.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Nov. 2026
  • On top of that, Medicare will pay less when a doctor sees a patient and performs a minor procedure, like a biopsy, at the same visit.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 11 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • Selena is offended, and splashes him with the liquid, which burns and kills him.
    — William Vaillancourt, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2026
  • The deadliest form of skin cancer, melanoma, kills more than 8,000 Americans a year and in Connecticut, nearly 900 people will be diagnosed each year.
    — Livi Stanford, Hartford Courant, 30 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • In addition to uncovering how, exactly, the immune system accomplishes this feat, Yu is also hoping to replicate this process in people who aren’t elite controllers.
    — Diana Kwon, Vox, 11 Nov. 2026
  • Modern life accomplishes this with complex biochemicals such as DNA and RNA, which can encode and copy information in their sequences.
    — Perri Thaler, Quanta Magazine, 10 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • Linda Cardellini slays an origin story (streaming on Peacock) about how the drowning of her son turned a camp cafeteria worker mad enough to kill a bunch of horny teenagers with a machete.
    — Tiffany Kelly, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Oct. 2026
  • With career-defining performances from Jodie Foster and Sir Anthony Hopkins, this movie still absolutely slays 35 years after it was released.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Yormark, armed with a multiyear deal and believed to have received equity in the business, is tasked with ensuring Milan Sports & Entertainment achieves that goal.
    — Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 13 Nov. 2026
  • Despite the higher motor speed and gear reduction, the system achieves nearly 93% efficiency, matching the comparable drive.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 10 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • This suspect returns back to his car, retrieves his handgun, walks back over to the victim, who’s trying to crawl away with her life, and executes her.
    — Dan Sullivan, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2026
  • The aircraft executes anti-surface warfare (ASuW) through elegant communications and data link systems.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2026

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

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