| VERB | social | carry off, pull off, negociate, bring off, manage | be successful |
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| contact | carry off, take away, bear off, bear away, carry away | remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state | |
| change | carry off, eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate | kill / kill / kill in large numbers |
| Meaning | Be successful; achieve a goal. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonyms | pull off, negociate, bring off, manage | |
| Broader | succeed, win, come through, bring home the bacon, deliver the goods | attain success or reach a desired goal / goal |
| Opposite | fail | Be unable |
| Spanish | conseguir, lograr | |
| Meaning | Remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport / transport / transport into a new location or state / state. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something | |
| Synonyms | take away, bear off, bear away, carry away | |
| Entails | leave, go forth, go away | go away from a place |
| Narrower | spirit away | carry away rapidly and secretly, as if mysteriously |
| spirit away, spirit off | carry off mysteriously | |
| whisk off, whisk away | take away quickly and suddenly | |
| Broader | remove, take, take away, withdraw | Remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract |
| Opposite | bring, get, convey, fetch | go or come after and bring or take back |
| Spanish | llevarse | |
| Meaning | kill / kill / kill in large numbers. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody | |
| Synonyms | eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate | |
| Broader | kill | Cause to die |
| Similar to | decimate | kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies |
| Spanish | anihilar, aniquilar, diezmar, eliminar, erradicar | |
| Catalan | anihilar, aniquilar, delmar, eliminar, eradicar, erradicar | |
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