Meaning

(transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
2. (transitive) To notionally transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
3. (transitive) To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
4. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To move; to convey using force
5. (transitive) To lead or guide.
6. (transitive) To stock or supply (something); to have in store.
7. (transitive) To adopt (something); take (something) over.
8. (transitive) To adopt or resolve on, especially in a deliberative assembly

Example Sentences

"By means of the Golden Cap I shall command the Winged Monkeys to carry you to the gates of the Emerald City," said Glinda, "for it would be a shame to deprive the people of so wonderful a ruler."

Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.

Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.

to carry the war from Greece into Asia

to carry an account to the ledger

The builders are going to carry the chimney through the roof.

They would have carried the road ten miles further, but ran out of materials.

Go, carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet.

Word Forms

• carries
• carrying
• carried

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Use carry when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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