carry away

• Verbe à particule signifiant emporter physiquement quelque chose ou quelqu'un, ou devenir excessivement excité ou ému (souvent utilisé à la forme passive 'être emporté').

A phrasal verb meaning to physically transport something or someone away, or to become overly excited or emotional (often used in the passive form 'be carried away').

indénombrable · transitif · phrasal, séparable

1. Become overly excited or emotionalinformal

   To become so excited or emotional that you lose control or act irrationally.

   se laisser emporter

   • Don't get carried away by the hype; think carefully.
   • She got carried away with the shopping and spent too much.
   • He was carried away by the music and started dancing wildly.

2. Physically removeformal

   To physically take something or someone away from a place.

   emporter physiquement

   • The strong wind carried away the leaves.
   • The ambulance carried away the injured person.
   • The floodwaters carried away several cars.

   Synonymesbear awaycart awayhaul awayremovesweep awaytake awaywash away

   Antonymesbringdeliverreturn

Verbe de basecarry