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1 VERB If you carry something, you take it with you, holding it so that it does not touch the ground. □ [V n] He was carrying a briefcase. □ [V n prep/adv] He carried the plate through to the dining room. □ [V n prep/adv] If your job involves a lot of paperwork, you're going to need something to carry it all in.

2 VERB If you carry something, you have it with you wherever you go. □ [V n] You have to carry a bleeper so that they can call you in at any time.

3 VERB If something carries a person or thing somewhere, it takes them there. □ [V n adv/prep] Flowers are designed to attract insects which then carry the pollen from plant to plant. □ [V n] The ship could carry seventy passengers.

4 VERB If a person or animal is carrying a disease, they are infected with it and can pass it on to other people or animals. □ [V n] Frogs eat pests which destroy crops and carry diseases.

5 VERB [no passive, no cont] If an action or situation has a particular quality or consequence, you can say that it carries it. □ [V n] Check that any medication you're taking carries no risk for your developing baby.

6 VERB If a quality or advantage carries someone into a particular position or through a difficult situation, it helps them to achieve that position or deal with that situation. □ [V n prep/adv] He had the ruthless streak necessary to carry him into the Cabinet.

7 VERB If you carry an idea or a method to a particular extent, you use or develop it to that extent. □ [V n prep/adv] It's not such a new idea, but I carried it to extremes. □ [V n prep/adv] We could carry that one step further by taking the same genes and putting them into another crop.

8 VERB If a newspaper or poster carries a picture or a piece of writing, it contains it or displays it. □ [V n] Several papers carry the photograph of Mr Anderson.

9 VERB [usu passive] In a debate, if a proposal or motion is carried , a majority of people vote in favour of it. □ [be V -ed] A motion backing its economic policy was carried by 322 votes to 296.

10 VERB [no cont] If a crime carries a particular punishment, a person who is found guilty of that crime will receive that punishment. □ [V n] It was a crime of espionage and carried the death penalty.

11 VERB If a sound carries , it can be heard a long way away. □ [V adv] Even in this stillness Leaphorn doubted if the sound would carry far. [Also V ]

12 VERB [no passive] If a candidate or party carries a state or area, they win the election in that state or area. [AM ] □ [V n] At that time George W. Bush carried the state with 56 percent of the vote. in BRIT, usually use take 13 VERB If you carry yourself in a particular way, you walk and move in that way. □ [V pron-refl prep/adv] They carried themselves with great pride and dignity.

14 VERB [usu cont] If a woman is carrying a child, she is pregnant. [OLD-FASHIONED ]

15 PHRASE If you get carried away or are carried away , you are so eager or excited about something that you do something hasty or foolish. □  I got completely carried away and almost cried.

16to carry conviction → see conviction

17to carry the day → see day

18to carry weight → see weight

▸  carry off

1 PHRASAL VERB If you carry something off , you do it successfully. □ [V n P ] He's got the experience and the authority to carry it off. [Also V P n]

2 PHRASAL VERB If you carry off a prize or a trophy, you win it. □ [V P n] It carried off the Evening Standard drama award for best play. [Also V n P ]

▸  carry on