Synonyms of carrying off

carrying off

verb

present participle of carry off

1

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• fulfilling
• performing
• executing
• achieving
• accomplishing
• carrying out
• doing
• making
• implementing
• going through
• pulling off
• putting through
• bringing off
• following through (with)
• prosecuting
• bringing about
• negotiating
• committing
• working (at)
• completing
• engaging (in)
• finishing
• perpetrating
• realizing
• effecting
• compassing
• practicing
• effectuating
• winding up
• attaining
• practising
• repeating
• ending
• nailing
• acing
• reenacting
• reduplicating
• actualizing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• failing
• slurring
• slighting
• skimping

2

as in killing

to deprive of life

pray that the pestilence does not carry off any more souls than it already has

Synonyms & Similar Words

• killing
• destroying
• slaying
• doing away with
• doing in
• doing for
• making away with
• taking
• cutting down
• dispatching
• claiming
• taking out
• putting away
• killing off
• felling
• murdering
• rubbing out
• knocking off
• blotting out
• slaughtering
• bumping off
• croaking
• finishing
• wasting
• assassinating
• putting down
• neutralizing
• executing
• scragging
• snuffing
• butchering
• mowing
• getting
• whacking
• offing
• icing
• massacring
• annihilating
• decimating
• smiting
• terminating
• euthanatizing
• martyring
• euthanizing
• suiciding

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• animating
• raising
• restoring
• reviving
• resurrecting
• nurturing
• resuscitating