Local English word record

bear away

verb · 1 sense

remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state

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Examples

  • Their dreams carried the Romantics away into distant lands
  • The car carried us off to the meeting
  • I'll take you away on a holiday
  • I got carried away when I saw the dead man and I started to cry

Word relationships

Synonyms

take away, bear off, carry away, carry off

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This page uses the locally materialized K5English vocabulary cohort. WordNet, where present, is enrichment only and does not determine K-5 admission.

Princeton WordNet 3.0