carrying off's Usage Examples:

As this game involves carrying off cards with a fixed sum, it belongs to the same family of games as Pyramid.

drain two parallel valleys running east and west in Attur taluk, former carrying off the drainage of Kalrayan Hills and the latter carrying the Kolli Hills.

Spanish expedition reduced the Bahamian settlements and defenses to ruins, carrying off the governor in chains, together with the inhabitants.

population, wiping out Spanish troops, killing Spanish children, and carrying off the Spanish women as concubines.

February 2017, the Free Radio group of stations in the West Midlands began carrying off-peak programming from the Northern England network, replacing most of.

raptura ("seizure, kidnapping"), which derives from the Latin raptus ("a carrying off").

Air pollution is also a contributing factor by carrying off iron, carbonic acid, nitrogen, silicon, sulfur, pesticides or dust particles.

Moise fled to Poland, carrying off the large fortune he had gathered during his rule.

the Alps, mercilessly pillaging Scordisci and other Celtic villages, carrying off thousands of people to be used as slaves.

He is, in turn, involved in various exploits which include carrying off the Queen of Scotland, being captured himself and then freed by Arthur.

Republican Army (IRA) bomb hidden inside the luggage locker of a coach carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel and their family members exploded.

Sommaripa and carrying off numerous prisoners and booty worth 15,000 ducats.

Two years later the Ottomans raided the island again, carrying off so many of.

Al Uzaym River, seizing control of Zaban, Irriya and Urgarsallu, and carrying off much plunder.

He carried on a system of spoliation by carrying off cattle that belonged to people he called his enemies, and also blackmailing.

into the regions of Pluto in company of Pirithous with the intention of carrying off Proserpine.

the Kerameikos at Athens, and on the temple of Apollo at Amyclae, the carrying off of Cephalus by Hemera (not Eos) was represented.

this was because he violated the laws of hospitality and marriage by carrying off his host's son and raping him, or because he ignored the Oracle's warning.

from then on, every year, Saracens attempted invasions in Asia Minor, carrying off captives on their way back.

Ground Force soldiers carrying off medical supplies for 2003 Bam earthquake.

In 1453 he was taken prisoner in Dublin Bay by pirates, who were carrying off some ships from the harbor of Dublin.

Synonyms:

Manhattan;

Antonyms:

deactivation; finish; end; ending;