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Definition of Carry through
1. Verb. Put in effect. "He actioned the operation"
Generic synonyms: Complete, Finish, Effect, Effectuate, Set Up
Related verbs: Carry Out, Follow Out, Follow Through, Follow Up, Go Through, Implement, Put Through
Specialized synonyms: Get Over, Run, Consummate, Consummate, Do, Perform, Complete, Discharge, Dispatch
Derivative terms: Accomplishable, Accomplishment, Execution, Executive, Fulfilment, Fulfillment
2. Verb. Bring into safety. "They carry through him from writing the letter"; "We pulled through most of the victims of the bomb attack"
Specialized synonyms: Deliver, Rescue
Derivative terms: Savior
Definition of Carry through
1. Verb. (transitive idiomatic) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carry Through
Literary usage of Carry through
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"In 1858 he returned to Birmingham, where he proposed, but failed to carry through,
the establishment of a branch house of the Oratory at Oxford. ..."
2. A Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861-1865 by Charles Francis Adams, Henry Adams (1920)
"The strong outside pressure that is now aroused to act on this Government will,
I hope, help us to carry through all we want in time and with patience. ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Bailments: Including Carriers, Innkeepers and Pledge by James Schouler (1897)
"Special Contract to carry through, how shown. — By special contract, unquestionably,
a carrier may, in America, as well as in England, assume to transport ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Bailments: Including Carriers, Innkeepers, and Pledge by James Schouler (1887)
"... so, on the other, is the disposition strong to hold a connecting carrier
answerable for his own negligence.l § GOO. Special Contract to carry through, ..."
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