Show me
of
Looking for synonyms for "carry"? Browse alternatives ranked by relevance — sharper word choices for fiction, poetry, and copywriting.
(v)
To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.
Relevance: 0%
To communicate; to make known; to portray.
(transitive) To hold inside.
(transitive) To grasp or grip.
(transitive) To accumulate or build up a supply of (something).
(transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
To move swiftly.
(transitive) To carry out; to put into effect.
(intransitive) To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward; to rock.
To have on hand for sale.
(transitive) To cause to increase in extent.
(transitive) To lead; to direct; to be in charge of (people or tasks)
(transitive) To evict, especially from a country.
(transitive, intransitive) To communicate (news or information, especially electronically).
(intransitive) To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner; used with an adverbial of manner.
(n)
A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back, but also a load for an animal, a bale.
(reflexive) To behave (in a given manner).
(transitive) To successfully convince (someone) to agree to, accept, or do something, usually through reasoning and verbal influence.
(transitive) To declare or find innocent or not guilty.
(transitive) To make or cut a channel or groove in.
(ambitransitive) To predict or believe that something will happen
(basketball, soccer) In various ball games, to move (with) the ball, controlling its path by kicking or bouncing it repeatedly.
(intransitive) To carry offspring in the uterus from conception to delivery.
(intransitive) To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.
(transitive) To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.
(computing) To install, test and implement a computer system or application.
To change place.
(transitive) To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.
(physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
The part of an object which is (designed to be) held in the hand when used or moved.
(transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
(transitive) To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity.
(transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force.
(law, transitive) To transfer (the title) of an object from one person or group of persons to another.
(adj)
subjected to transportation
(ambitransitive) To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction, especially with the intent of catching.
to spread or disseminate
(transitive) To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
(transitive) To aim for, go after (a specified objective, situation etc.).
The transportation of a criminal.
To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to carry on.
To position or be positioned physically:
(transitive) To encourage growth; to support progress or growth of something; to promote.
(intransitive) (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater, to greaten.
To physically place (something or someone somewhere).
(transitive) To form (something) by combining materials or parts.
(intransitive) To become widespread.
(transitive or ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
(ergative) To begin, commence, initiate.
The act, manner or style of executing (actions, maneuvers, performances).
(transitive) To send out; to start (someone) on a mission or project; to give a start to (something); to put in operation
(transitive) To take upon oneself; to start, to embark on (a specific task etc.).
(transitive, ditransitive) To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another (or to someone).
(transitive) To help keep from falling.
(transitive) To carry out successfully; to accomplish.
(transitive) To reverse or change the order of (two or more things); to swap or interchange.
To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.
A burden; a weight to be carried.
(transitive, ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
The business of transporting heavy goods.
(transitive) To create.
(transitive) To direct or be in charge of.
The act by which something is brought.
(ambitransitive) To do (something) in front of an audience, such as acting or music, often in order to entertain.
To serve as a porter; to carry.
To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.
To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.).
(transitive) To finish successfully.
(transitive) To make whole or entire.
To bring about; to put into practice; to carry out.
Of, pertaining to, or having responsibility for the day-to-day running of an organisation, business, country, etc.
(transitive) To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case
The act of achieving or performing; a successful performance; accomplishment.
(transitive) To put (someone or something) in a specific location.
To keep up, impose or bring into effect something, not necessarily by force.
(ambitransitive) To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.
To bring or transport something to its destination.
(transitive) To force, constrain, or coerce.
(transitive) To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.
(transitive) To proceed with (doing an activity); to prolong (an activity).
(transitive) To maintain, or keep in existence.
To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
The act of enforcing; compulsion.
(ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
(transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
The improper use of something for selfish purposes.
(transitive, reflexive) To prepare oneself; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.
(transitive) Often followed by from: to hold back (someone or something); to check, to prevent, to restrain, to stop.
(intransitive) To perform physical activity for health or training.
(transitive) To set up; to organize; to put into an orderly sequence or arrangement.
(transitive or intransitive) To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act.
(transitive) To satisfy, carry out, bring to completion (an obligation, a requirement, etc.).
(transitive) To make use of, to apply, especially of something non-material; to bring to bear.
(transitive) To divide into portions and dispense.
To transmit again.
(intransitive) To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
(transitive) To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
To cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation.