Definition of carry off

• be successful; achieve a goal; "She succeeded in persuading us all"; "I managed to carry the box upstairs"; "She pulled it off, even though we never thought her capable of it"; "The pianist negociated the difficult runs"
• remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state; "Their dreams carried the Romantics away into distant lands"; "The car carried us off to the meeting"; "Ill take you away on a holiday"; "I got carried away when I saw the dead man and I started to cry"
• kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"