carry off

verb

1. 1

   kill in large numbers

   the plague wiped out an entire population

2. 2

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

   Their dreams carried the Romantics away into distant lands

   The car carried us off to the meeting

3. 3

   be successful; achieve a goal

   She succeeded in persuading us all

   I managed to carry the box upstairs