carry — OAT · Shobdo

carry

verb

1 she carried the box of food into the kitchen:

convey, transfer, move, take, bring, bear, shift, switch, fetch, transport;

informal cart, lug, hump, schlep, tote.

2 Britain's biggest coach operator carries 12 million passengers a year:

transport, convey, transmit, move, handle.

3 satellites were used to carry the signal over the Atlantic:

transmit, conduct, pass on, relay, communicate, convey, impart, bear, dispatch, beam;

disseminate, spread, circulate, diffuse.

4 the dinghy would carry the weight of the baggage easily enough:

support, sustain, stand, prop up, shore up, bolster, underpin, buttress.

5 managers carry as much responsibility as possible:

undertake, accept, assume, bear, shoulder, support, sustain;

take on, take up, take on oneself;

manage, handle, deal with, get to grips with, turn one's hand to.

6 she told him the baby she was carrying was not his:

be pregnant with, bear, expect;

technical be gravid with.

7 she carried herself with a certain assurance:

conduct, bear, hold;

act, behave, perform, acquit;

rare comport, deport.

8 a resolution was carried by an overwhelming majority:

approve, vote for, accept, endorse, ratify, authorize, mandate, support, back, uphold;

agree to, consent to, assent to, acquiesce in, concur in, accede to, give one's blessing to, bless, give one's seal/stamp of approval to, rubber-stamp, say yes to;

informal give the go-ahead to, give the green light to, give the OK to, OK, give the thumbs up to, give the nod to, buy.

▷antonyms reject.

9 this argument carried the day:

win, capture, gain, secure, effect, take, accomplish.

▷antonyms lose.

10 I spoke for forty minutes and carried the whole audience:

win over, sway, prevail on, convince, persuade, influence;

affect, have an effect on, have an impact on, impact on, motivate, stimulate, drive, touch, reach.

11 today's paper carried an article on housing policy:

publish, print, communicate, give, release, distribute, spread, disseminate;

broadcast, transmit.

12 we carry a wide assortment of hockey sticks:

sell, stock, keep, keep in stock, offer, have for sale, have, retail, market, supply, trade in, deal in, traffic in, peddle, hawk.

13 most common domestic toxins carry poison warnings:

display, bear, exhibit, show, present, set forth, be marked with, have.

14 contempt of court carries a maximum penalty of two years' imprisonment:

entail, involve, lead to, result in, occasion, have as a consequence, have;

require, demand.

15 his voice carried across the quay:

be audible, travel, reach, be transmitted.

□ get carried away (also be carried away)

I'm afraid I got a bit carried away:

lose self-control, get excited, get overexcited, go too far, lose one's sense of proportion, be swept off one's feet;

informal flip, lose it.

□ carry someone off

his elder brother had been carried off by consumption:

kill, kill off, cause the death of, cause to die, take/end the life of, dispatch, finish off;

informal polish off, do in.

□ carry something off

1 her costar carried off four awards:

win, secure, capture, gain, achieve, attain, earn, obtain, acquire, procure, get, collect, pick up, come away with;

informal land, net, bag, bank, pot, scoop, walk off/away with.

2 against the odds, he has carried it off:

succeed in, triumph in, be victorious in, achieve success in, be successful in, be a success in, do well at, make good in, knock something out of the park, hit something out of the park;

informal crack.

□ carry on

1 she didn't have the strength to carry on arguing:

continue, keep on, keep, keep at, go on, push on, press on, persist in, persevere in, not stop, maintain;

informal stick with/at.

▷antonyms stop.

2 it's just not the English way of carrying on:

behave, act, perform, conduct oneself, acquit oneself, bear oneself, carry oneself;

rare comport oneself, deport oneself.

3 British, informal his wife had been carrying on with other men:

have an affair, commit adultery, philander, dally, be involved;

informal play around, have a fling, mess around, play away;

North American, informal fool around.

4 I abused the teachers and was always carrying on:

misbehave, behave badly, make mischief, get up to mischief, be mischievous, act up, cause trouble, cause a fuss/commotion, get/be up to no good, be bad, be naughty, clown around, fool around, mess around, act the clown, act the fool, act the goat, act foolishly;

informal create;

British, informal muck about, muck around, play up.

▷antonyms behave.

□ carry something on

a bank carrying on a bona fide business:

engage in, conduct, undertake, be involved in, take part in, participate in, carry out, perform, direct.

□ carry something out

1 the decision to carry out a caesarean section:

conduct, perform, implement, execute, discharge, bring about, bring off, effect;

rare effectuate.

2 I carried out my promise to her:

fulfill, carry through, implement, execute, effect, discharge, perform, honor, redeem, make good;

keep, observe, abide by, comply with, obey, respect, conform to, stick to, act in accordance with, act according to, have regard to, heed, follow, pay attention to, defer to, take notice of, be bound by, keep faith with, stand by, adhere to.

▷antonyms break.