Thesaurus results for CARRYING AWAY

carrying away

verb

present participle of carry away

as in transporting

to fill with overwhelming emotion (as wonder or delight) the beauty of the music carried him away

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Recent Examples of carrying away One video shows a victim receiving CPR; another shows people carrying away the bodies of those killed. — Clare Sebastian, CNN Money, 10 Nov. 2026 Other young men waved their hands in panic before carrying away the body. — Suheir Hashimeh, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2026 Cameras captured officers carrying away a baseball bat as possible evidence. — Todd Feurer, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026 The physical displacement drives the flow of CSF through the brain’s tissues, potentially carrying away harmful waste products. — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 11 May 2026 Jesse Jeremiah, 51, was arrested on suspicion of malicious destruction of railroad property, vandalism and unlawfully stealing and carrying away copper materials, jail records show. — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 15 Jan. 2026 Military rescue teams fanned out across the region, the defence ministry said in a statement, with 40 flights carrying away 420 wounded and dead. — Mohammad Yunus Yawar, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2025 Drool was evaporating off them, carrying away heat. — Tao Lin, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for carrying away

Verb

Some experts have questioned whether Russia can meet the schedule for diesel deliveries, in part because of the complexities of transporting the oil within Russia to its ports and thence to its destination.

— Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026
Then the Iran war sent the prices of diesel and fertilizer soaring, which increased the costs of transporting beef and growing feed.

— The Week US, TheWeek, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of transporting

Verb

Indeed, this crowd-pleasing title currently is enjoying an off-Broadway run that now has eclipsed the original in length.

— Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 10 Nov. 2026
The menu leans into crowd-pleasing seafood and vegetable-forward dishes, but pastas and hearty mains like a pork belly with roasted new potato and pane carasau cannot be missed.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of pleasing

Verb

From bizarre medical tests to a mass phobia of beans, here are 14 surprising facts that reveal just how inventive, eccentric, and fascinating the ancient Greeks really were.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Oct. 2026
The trailer promises fascinating new characters, like one man who lives on a sailboat for most of the year.

— Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of fascinating

Verb

Under the proposal, states could also designate other activities as satisfying the requirement.

— Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 9 Nov. 2026
An evening spent learning something absorbing can be satisfying simply because the world feels a little less familiar afterward.

— Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 7 Nov. 2026

Definition of satisfying

Verb

The view is equally entrancing in the evenings, when the water is cast in shades of gold and the sails of felucca boats trace a timeless scene on the horizon.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Nov. 2026
The film became a staple of late-night television, entrancing viewers like a teenage Howard Ashman.

— Andrew Buss, Vanity Fair, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of entrancing

Verb

Even the Owens family’s enchanting New England home, which the internet has spent nearly three decades foaming at the mouth over, is barely seen, as much of the film takes place overseas.

— Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2026
Practical Magic 2 has Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman enchanting a new generation of fans, but not everyone from the original cast returned for the sequel.

— Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of enchanting

Verb

Co-existing in the same composition, those visible shifts in speed, thickness, and direction carved out three-dimensional spaces of ravishing complexity and urgency.

— Sebastian Smee, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2026
Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles bring Jane Austen’s beloved heroines to life in a ravishing new interpretation of Sense and Sensibility also featuring the great Caitríona Balfe, Frank Dillane, George MacKay and Fiona Shaw.

— Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026