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View definitions for carry away

carry away

verb as in discharge

verb as in shanghai

verb as in transport

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Example Sentences

To carry away fruit or bonbons from the table is a sign of low breeding.

A strainer of bark cloth is plunged into it at times, and wrung out so as to carry away the small fragments of root.

Nothing stirred visibly and the wind would carry away any warning scent.

But it is common for them to destroy ten times as much as they can eat or carry away.

Bathing at the river-side he found four hundred young men striving in vain to carry away a tree which they had cut.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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