Thesaurus results for CARRIED AWAY

carried away

verb

past tense of carry away

as in transported

to fill with overwhelming emotion (as wonder or delight) the beauty of the music carried him away

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Recent Examples of carried away Hearing her own words played as Houston’s coffin was carried away was overwhelming for Parton. — Lily Brown, PEOPLE, 28 Aug. 2026 The model credits pasture for taking up carbon but does not count the carbon carried away in wool and livestock as leaving the system. — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 21 Aug. 2026 Large debris carried away by the Big Thompson flood on July 31, 1976, caused significant damage to a nearby home. — Dillon Thomas, CBS News, 31 July 2026 Having father Sebastijan around means there’s never any danger of him getting carried away. — James Pearce, New York Times, 28 July 2026 Some people get carried away swiping their cards on discretionary items like clothes and home goods or leisure activities like dining out or going to the movies. — Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 22 July 2026 On Earth, most cooling happens through convection as heat transfers from a hot object into the air and is carried away as the warmer air rises. — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 15 July 2026 Nitrogen, one of the main nutrients needed for strong plant growth, is especially susceptible to being carried away like this. — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 July 2026 Flash flooding in southeastern Missouri wrecked a campground and carried away about a dozen people, according to local authorities. — Michael Loria, USA Today, 10 July 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for carried away

Verb

The woman was transported to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

— Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
The officers involved in the shooting were transported to a local area hospital for evaluation while Cisneros was taken to Bellevue, where she was pronounced dead.

— Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of transported

Verb

That opening-day land in Disney’s Animal Kingdom delighted families for 28 years, but officially closed in February 2026 to make way for an entirely new Tropical Americas land.

— Julie Tremaine, PEOPLE, 3 Sep. 2026
In the last two months, New York City’s Radio City Music Hall hosted two ‘80s British music triple bills that delighted fans of the golden MTV era.

— David Chiu, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of delighted

Verb

Bat is entranced by the instruction manual written in many languages, while Snake finds endless imaginative uses for the box itself.

— Caroline Carlson, Literary Hub, 1 Sep. 2026
The look felt right at home on this press tour, adding to her incredible roster of recent looks that have left us mere mortals entranced.

— Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 16 July 2026

Definition of entranced

Verb

The court sent unresolved questions about whether the warrant in that case satisfied constitutional requirements back to a lower court.

— Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 23 Aug. 2026
The court did not decide whether the particular geofence warrant ultimately satisfied the Fourth Amendment's probable cause and particularity requirements.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of satisfied

Verb

One of the artists Olivier interviewed, Xang, rapped at blistering decibels to the delight and confusion of a couple hundred stylish black and brown kids.

— Mano Sundaresan, Pitchfork, 1 July 2026
In 2021, the actor first rapped on the group’s Good Guys, Bad Guys EP, using the name Frankie Pulitzer.

— Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2026

Definition of rapped

Verb

As Oppenheim put it at the film’s Venice press conference, he’d long been fascinated by Hansen, and only became more so after his wife gifted him a Cameo from the host for his birthday.

— Nate Jones, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2026
Here are four more scammers who fascinated people on the internet – plus one who people thought was a scammer but turned out not to be.

— Owen Carry, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026