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earn
To gain especially for the performance of service, labor, or work:
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  1. To gain especially for the performance of service, labor, or work:
  2. (Intransitive) To receive payment for work.
  3. To get or deserve as a result of something one has done
gain
To join by or fit into a gain.
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  1. To join by or fit into a gain.
  2. To get as an increase, addition, profit, or advantage
  3. To get by labor; earn
get
To work for gain or profit; make money:
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  1. To work for gain or profit; make money:
  2. To go and bring
  3. To cause to move or leave:
shanghai
To induce or compel (someone) to do something, especially by fraud or force:
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  1. To induce or compel (someone) to do something, especially by fraud or force:
  2. To kidnap (a man) for compulsory service aboard a ship, especially after drugging him.
  3. A city of eastern China at the mouth of the Yangtze River southeast of Nanjing. The largest city in the country, it was a treaty port following the Opium War (1839–1842). France, Great Britain, and the United States all held large concessions in the city until the early 1900s.
capture
To gain possession or control of, as in a game or contest:
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  1. To gain possession or control of, as in a game or contest:
  2. To succeed in preserving in lasting form:
  3. To attract and hold:
make-off-with
To steal something and run
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  1. To steal something and run
carry away
(Nautical, of a mast or rigging) To break under sudden pressure of violent wind.
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  1. (Nautical, of a mast or rigging) To break under sudden pressure of violent wind.
do
To carry on; manage:
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  1. To carry on; manage:
  2. (Slang) To take; ingest; use
  3. To behave or conduct oneself; act:
triumph
To be victorious or successful; win.
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  1. To be victorious or successful; win.
  2. To gain victory or success; win mastery
  3. To receive honors upon return from a victory. Used especially of generals in ancient Rome.
accomplish
To make complete; perfect
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  1. To make complete; perfect
  2. To do; succeed in doing; complete (a task, time, or distance)
  3. To succeed in doing (a task, for example); carry out or complete.
handle
To operate with the hands; manipulate:
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  1. To operate with the hands; manipulate:
  2. To direct, execute, or dispose of:
  3. To manage, administer to, or represent:
bring off
(Archaic) To rescue; to liberate.
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  1. (Archaic) To rescue; to liberate.
  2. To bring away from; to bring by boat from a ship, a wreck, the shore, etc.
  3. To succeed in doing something considered to be very difficult.
make-good
(Rare) To achieve substantial success in life, often in business.
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  1. (Rare) To achieve substantial success in life, often in business.
  2. (Often with "on"): To complete successfully.
Find another word for carry-off. In this page you can discover 23 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for carry-off, like: earn, gain, get, shanghai, capture, make-off-with, carry away, do, triumph, accomplish and handle.

Sentence Examples

  • They should always be fitted with a pan of water to supply the necessary humidity to the warmed air, and a flue to carry off any disagreeable fumes.

  • A flue should in all cases be provided to carry off the fumes of the fuel.

  • Unable to bear up against the Dominican's fiery denunciations, the sovereigns, three months after the fall of Granada, issued a decree ordering every Jew either to embrace Christianity or to leave the country, four months being given to make up their minds; and those who refused to become Christians to order had leave to sell their property and carry off their effects.

  • A plot to carry off the young Mortimers was defeated; but Mowbray, the earl marshal, who had been privy to it, raised a rebellion in the north supported by Archbishop Scrope of York.

  • The plot resulted in the murder of Gedaliah and an unsuccessful attempt to carry off various princesses and officials who had been left in the governor's care.

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