carry off

verb

1. Be successful; achieve a goal

   “I managed to carry the box upstairs”

   “She pulled it off, even though we never thought her capable of it”

   “The pianist negociated the difficult runs”

   Similar: pull off, negociate, bring off, manage

2. Remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state

   “Their dreams carried the Romantics away into distant lands”

   “The car carried us off to the meeting”

   “I'll take you away on a holiday”

   Similar: take away, bear off, bear away, carry away

3. Kill in large numbers

   “the plague wiped out an entire population”

   Similar: eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate