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The synonyms of “Carry” are: channel, conduct, convey, impart, transmit, post, pack, take, hold, express, extend, run, persuade, sway, stock, stockpile, acquit, bear, behave, comport, deport, contain, dribble, transport, expect, gestate, have a bun in the oven, transfer, move, bring, shift, switch, fetch, handle, pass on, relay, communicate, dispatch, beam, possess, have, own, be the owner of, have in one's possession, be in possession of, have to one's name, support, sustain, stand, prop up, shore up, bolster, underpin, buttress, be pregnant with, be audible, travel, reach, be transmitted, undertake, accept, assume, shoulder, entail, involve, lead to, result in, occasion, have as a consequence, publish, print, give, release, distribute, spread, disseminate, sell, keep, keep in stock, offer, have for sale, retail, market, supply, trade in, deal in, traffic in, peddle, hawk, display, exhibit, show, present, set forth, be marked with, approve, vote for, endorse, ratify, authorize, mandate, back, uphold, win over, prevail on, convince, influence, win, capture, gain, secure, effect, accomplish
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “carry” as a verb can have the following definitions:
accept | Make use of or accept for some purpose. Please accept my present. |
accomplish | Put in effect. The planes accomplished their mission. |
acquit | Discharge (a duty or responsibility. The jury acquitted Bream of murder. |
approve | Officially agree to or accept as satisfactory. The budget was approved by parliament. |
assume | Make a pretence of. She assumed strange manners. |
authorize | Give official permission for or approval to (an undertaking or agent. The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography. |
back | Cover the back of an article in order to support protect or decorate it. I put the car in reverse and backed down the road. |
be audible | Be priced at. |
be in possession of | Form or compose. |
be marked with | Represent, as of a character on stage. |
be pregnant with | Be priced at. |
be the owner of | Represent, as of a character on stage. |
be transmitted | Have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun. |
beam | Express with a beaming face or smile. She beamed with pleasure. |
bear | Take responsibility for. She bears the title of Duchess. |
behave | Behave in a certain manner. Don t behave like a fool. |
bolster | Prop up with a pillow or bolster. Bolster morale. |
bring | Go or come after and bring or take back. She could not bring herself to mention it. |
buttress | Provide a building or structure with buttresses. Authority was buttressed by religious belief. |
capture | Capture as if by hunting snaring or trapping. These allow users to capture edit and display geographic data. |
channel | Emulate or seem to be inspired by. The council is to channel public funds into training schemes. |
communicate | Pass on (an infectious disease) to another person or animal. The dining room communicates with the kitchen. |
comport | Conduct oneself; behave. They do all that nature and art can do to comport with his will. |
conduct | Transmit a form of energy such as heat or electricity by conduction. She cannot conduct modern pieces. |
contain | Contain or hold have within. He must contain his hatred. |
convey | Transport or carry to a place. The real virtues and diversity of America had never been conveyed in the movies. |
convince | Cause (someone) to believe firmly in the truth of something. Robert s expression had obviously convinced her of his innocence. |
deal in | Be in charge of, act on, or dispose of. |
deport | Expel (a foreigner) from a country, typically on the grounds of illegal status or for having committed a crime. He was deported for violation of immigration laws. |
dispatch | Kill. The Welsh team were dispatched comfortably by the opposition. |
display | Attract attention by displaying some body part or posing of animals. National leaders will have to display the highest skills of statesmanship. |
disseminate | Spread throughout an organ or the body. There is a subset of these low grade tumours that can disseminate and migrate. |
distribute | Distribute or disperse widely. The journal is distributed worldwide. |
dribble | Run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream. Dribble oil into the mixture. |
effect | Cause (something) to happen; bring about. Effect a change. |
endorse | Sign as evidence of legal transfer. Endorse a new project. |
entail | Have as a logical consequence. What does this move entail. |
exhibit | Give an exhibition of to an interested audience. She was invited to exhibit at several French museums. |
expect | Consider obligatory request and expect. We expect great things of you. |
express | Give expression to. She expressed the letter to Florida. |
extend | Continue or extend. The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets. |
fetch | Achieve (a particular price) when sold. He ran to fetch help. |
gain | Obtain or secure (something wanted or desirable. This atomic clock will neither gain nor lose a second in the next 1 million years. |
gestate | Develop over a long period. Rabbits gestate for approximately twenty eight days. |
give | Give as a present make a gift of. Give the orders. |
handle | Handle effectively. People who handle food. |
have | Have put someone at a disadvantage in an argument. Are you going to have a party. |
have a bun in the oven | Get something; come into possession of. |
have as a consequence | Organize or be responsible for. |
have for sale | Suffer from; be ill with. |
have in one's possession | Have left. |
have to one's name | Undergo (as of injuries and illnesses. |
hawk | Hunt with hawks. The tribes like to hawk in the desert. |
hold | Hold the attention of. Hold hold he cried. |
impart | Make (information) known. Impart a new skill to the students. |
influence | Have an influence on. The artist s work influenced the young painter. |
involve | Be or become occupied or engrossed in something. Angela told me she was involved with someone else. |
keep | Keep under control keep in check. She never keeps her promises. |
keep in stock | Maintain for use and service. |
lead to | Take somebody somewhere. |
mandate | Of territory be assigned to another power under a mandate of the League of Nations. Mandate a colony. |
market | Deal in a market. The company is marketing its new line of beauty products. |
move | Cause to move or shift into a new position or place both in a concrete and in an abstract sense. She moved the tray to a side table. |
occasion | Give occasion to. Something vital must have occasioned this visit. |
offer | Present or proffer something for someone to accept or reject as desired. Offer prayers to the gods. |
own | Have something as one s own possess. He owns three houses in Florida. |
pack | Hike with a backpack. A pneumatic igloo tent that packs away compactly. |
pass on | Transfer to another; of rights or property. |
peddle | Sell (an illegal drug or stolen item. He peddled printing materials around the country. |
persuade | Induce (someone) to do something through reasoning or argument. You can t persuade me to buy this ugly vase. |
possess | Have ownership or possession of. He did not possess a sense of humour. |
post | Publicize with or as if with a poster. We have posted all the bars. |
present | Represent abstractly for example in a painting drawing or sculpture. We presented the arguments to him. |
prevail on | Be valid, applicable, or true. |
Produce text or a picture by a printing process. The words had been printed in dark type. | |
prop up | Support by placing against something solid or rigid. |
publish | Communicate (a libel) to a third party. She is frequently published in literary journals and anthologies. |
ratify | Sign or give formal consent to (a treaty, contract, or agreement), making it officially valid. Both countries were due to ratify the treaty by the end of the year. |
reach | Reach a point in time or a certain state or level. The water reached the doorstep. |
relay | Control or operate by relay. Please relay the news to the villagers. |
release | Release gas or energy as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition. He released the handbrake. |
result in | Issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end. |
retail | Sell goods to the public by retail. His inimitable way of retailing a diverting anecdote. |
run | Move about freely and without restraint or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way. Interest rates run from 5 to 10 percent. |
secure | Succeed in obtaining (something), especially with difficulty. Doors are likely to be well secured at night. |
sell | Sell all of one s stock of something. This magazine of yours won t sell. |
set forth | Bear fruit. |
shift | Use a shift key on a keyboard. Grimm showed how the consonants shifted. |
shore up | Arrive on shore. |
shoulder | Push with the shoulders. The day to day work will be shouldered by an action group. |
show | Show in or as in a picture. The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero. |
spread | Spread across or over. You can spread the payments over as long a period as you like. |
stand | Withstand the force of something. I can t stand the way Mum talks to him. |
stock | Equip with a stock. Stock a farm. |
stockpile | Accumulate a large stock of (goods or materials. He claimed that the weapons were being stockpiled. |
supply | Take over (a vacant place or role. When she died no one could supply her place. |
support | Be the physical support of carry the weight of. She supported the motion to strike. |
sustain | Establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts. He sustained severe head injuries. |
sway | Move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner. His speech did not sway the voters. |
switch | Beat or flick with or as if with a switch. She worked as a librarian and then switched to journalism. |
take | Take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs. She takes Route 1 to Newark. |
trade in | Do business; offer for sale as for one’s livelihood. |
traffic in | Deal illegally. |
transfer | Transfer somebody to a different position or location of work. Transfer the data. |
transmit | Transmit or serve as the medium for transmission. Transmit a message. |
transport | Transport commercially. He was convicted of theft and transported. |
travel | Travel from place to place as for the purpose of finding work preaching or acting as a judge. Light travels faster than sound. |
underpin | Support (a building or other structure) from below by laying a solid foundation below ground level or by substituting stronger for weaker materials. The theme of honour underpinning the two books. |
undertake | Guarantee or affirm something; give as a formal pledge. A lorry driver implicitly undertakes that he is reasonably skilled as a driver. |
uphold | Confirm or support (something which has been questioned. They uphold a tradition of not causing distress to living creatures. |
vote for | Express one’s preference for a candidate or for a measure or resolution; cast a vote. |
win | Win something through one s efforts. You will find it difficult to win back their attention. |
win over | Attain success or reach a desired goal. |
bag | Put into a bag. We bagged up the apples. |
carriage | A four-wheeled passenger vehicle pulled by two or more horses. The carriage of bikes on public transport. |
comport | Conduct oneself; behave. They do all that nature and art can do to comport with his will. |
concomitant | An event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another. He sought promotion without the necessary concomitant of hard work. |
contain | Contain or hold have within. Documents containing both text and simple graphics can be created. |
convey | Transfer to another. No application for registration is required when the property is conveyed following a court order. |
conveyance | Act of transferring property title from one person to another. A role that demands much more than the conveyance of simple emotions. |
correlate | To bear a reciprocal or mutual relation. We should correlate general trends in public opinion with trends in the content of television news. |
entail | A property bequeathed under an entail. Landed property was governed by primogeniture and entail. |
entangle | Involve (someone) in difficulties or complicated circumstances from which it is difficult to escape. They were suspicious of becoming entangled in a civil war. |
ferry | Convey in a ferry or other ship or boat especially across a short stretch of water. Ambulances ferried the injured to hospital. |
ferryboat | A boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule. |
fetch | The action of fetching. Kind offers fetched tears from me. |
have | Have left. Do you have a client named Peters. |
hold | Support or hold in a certain manner. She holds her head high. |
implicate | A thing implied. He implicated his government in the murders of three judges. |
include | Make part of a whole or set. We have included some hints for beginners in this section. |
included | Enclosed in the same envelope or package. The included check. |
inclusion | The act of including. An inclusion in the cytoplasm of the cell. |
involve | Have or include (something) as a necessary or integral part or result. The situation was rather involved. |
A single delivery or collection of mail. The mail handles billions of items every day. | |
parcel | Make something into a parcel by wrapping it. The developers parceled the land. |
participate | Take part in an action or endeavour. Thousands participated in a nationwide strike. |
pertain | Be in effect or existence in a specified place or at a specified time. My remark pertained to your earlier comments. |
send | Send a message or letter. Send your document as a PDF attachment. |
stockpile | Accumulate a large stock of (goods or materials. He claimed that the weapons were being stockpiled. |
synchronous | Pertaining to a transmission technique that requires a common clock signal (a timing reference) between the communicating devices in order to coordinate their transmissions. Synchronous oscillations. |
transfer | The act of transfering something from one form to another. A patient had died after transfer from the County Hospital to St Peter s. |
transmit | Transmit or serve as the medium for transmission. The programme was transmitted on 7 October. |
transport | The action of transporting something or the state of being transported. The book transported her to new worlds. |
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