carry out
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to carry out (third-person singular simple present carries out, present participle carrying out, simple past and past participle carried out)
- (transitive) To hold while moving something out.
- We’ll have to carry the piano out of the shop.
- (transitive) (idiomatic) To fulfill.
- She finally carried out his lifelong ambition when she appeared in a Hollywood blockbuster.
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To hold while moving something out.
To fulfill
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- carry in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- carry out in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
