CARRYING OFF Synonyms: 92 Similar and Opposite Words

carrying off

verb

present participle of carry off

as in fulfilling

to carry through (as a process) to completion the con artist would never have been able to carry off his schemes if it were not for the greed of his eager victims

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as in killing

to deprive of life pray that the pestilence does not carry off any more souls than it already has

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Recent Examples of carrying off Zeus acting for his own pleasure underlies the evolutionary tales of small groups raiding foreign shores, carrying off women. — Literary Hub, 15 Jan. 2026 Before the night was out, Germans began chipping away at the barrier, carrying off chunks of one of the symbols of the diminishing Iron Curtain. — Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 9 Nov. 2025

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Verb

And renting an empty office with nothing more to do than read the newspaper every day is rarely fulfilling.

— Robert Balentine, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
But don’t sit at home, doing random tasks for empty nonprofits, believing in the ruse of fulfilling the necessary 200 volunteer hours to get into college.

— Anya Joseph, Mercury News, 8 July 2026

Definition of fulfilling

Verb

Murdaugh, once a powerful personal injury attorney in South Carolina’s Lowcountry, was convicted in 2023 of killing his wife, Maggie, 52, and their younger son, Paul, 22, at the family’s hunting estate in June 2021.

— Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2026
Shiite and Sunni Muslims have been killing each other for centuries, and the status of women in some Muslims countries is deplorable.

— Kenneth Seeskin, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026

Definition of killing

Verb

Bad Bunny seamlessly moved from the stage to the couture scene, performing on Sunday night at Plenitude Arena in Paris, before turning heads the next morning at Schiaparelli’s show at the Petit Palais in a butter yellow suit.

— Laure Guilbault, Vogue, 10 July 2026
The 24-year-old South Korean artist will also be performing on the Museum’s Ray Charles Rooftop Terrance, where attendees can enjoy the show with views of downtown Los Angeles.

— Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 9 July 2026

Definition of performing

Verb

Or tech companies forcing regular people to foot the electricity bills for their environment-destroying data centers!

— Rebekah Taussig, Time, 7 July 2026
Many older interceptor missiles use blast-fragmentation warheads, detonating near the incoming missile and destroying it with high-speed metal fragments.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 6 July 2026

Definition of destroying

Verb

Together, those technologies allow the robot to learn human movements through thousands of simulated training sessions before executing them in dynamic real-world environments.

— Clemente Lisi, Forbes.com, 6 July 2026
And Hamas has instead reasserted its power in parts of Gaza not occupied by Israel, recently executing a Palestinian accused of collaborating with Israel.

— Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 6 July 2026

Definition of executing

Verb

The new team, nicknamed the Vatreni (the blazers or the fiery ones), was considered a rank outsider, and few expected the masterful giant-slaying campaign that Croatia delivered.

— Tushaar Kuthiala, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 June 2026
Kim — who faces murder charges in a 2016 killing in San Jose and a 2018 slaying in Westminster — was flown into Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday, booked into the Anaheim city jail, turned over to the San Jose Police Department and then transported to Santa Clara County.

— Sean Emery, Oc Register, 12 June 2026

Definition of slaying

Verb

From enduring prejudice at West Point to commanding the Tuskegee Airmen and achieving 4-star general status, his life exemplified resilience.

— Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
And when layered pieces are left completely out of the ponytail, the face is further accentuated, achieving a more youthful look.

— Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 3 July 2026

Definition of achieving

Verb

Daeron has not yet appeared in House of the Dragon but is mentioned in the second season’s sixth episode when Alicent asks her brother Gwayne (Freddie Fox) how Daeron is doing in Oldtown.

— Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 22 June 2026
Instead of independently designing and optimizing individual components and then connecting and calibrating them, GM can now simultaneously balance airflow and refrigerant behavior with cabin comfort, doing in days or hours what used to take months or weeks.

— Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 1 June 2026

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