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To carry off

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To remove to a distance.
To bear away as from the power or grasp of others.
To remove from life; as, the plague carried off thousands.

See also: Carry Carry Carry



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Trains of peasant carts came to Moscow to carry off to the villages what had been abandoned in the ruined houses and the streets.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
No one doubted but that the day had come when, in accordance with their compact, Quasimodo, that is to say, the devil, was to carry off Claude Frollo, that is to say, the sorcerer.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
The tails tapering down that way, serve to carry off the water, d'ye see.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
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