to carry
- verb
- /หkรฆri/
- It's because I carry a passion about teaching.
- carry weight
- carry responsibility
- carry risk
What do I do with the shame that I'm carrying from my past mistakes?
- What do I do with the shame that I'm carrying from my past mistakes?
- They cannot, cannot annihilate what we carry in our hearts and minds.
- It's the kids that carry the most of it through life.
- But you, you've carried with you some of what you had.
- And so I don't, yeah, I don't carry resemblance or anger toward him.
- It's because I carry a passion about teaching.
- And I think I'm carrying this horrid energy over.
- It's it's a space where you carry around your heart.
- That common sense I've carried with me my entire life.
- You know, we all carry, we all carry around a certain sort of darkness.
- I get super, you know, I carry stress like in my body.
- But and then, yeah, I think biggest thing I carry about me is my wits.
- And all of you truth seers out there carry the gift and the weight of seeing it.
Examples
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I know people out here want to know what I carry with me.
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What do I do with the shame that I'm carrying from my past mistakes?
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But to say that the meaning in your life is carried by you.
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It's the kids that carry the most of it through life.
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And do some of them carry this throughout their lives?
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You know, we all carry, we all carry around a certain sort of darkness.
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That common sense I've carried with me my entire life.
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I still carry the pendant you gave me the day we left the city.
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They are creatures who carry the past with them.
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We keep her close in our hearts and carry with us the memory of her forever.
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
To support someone and do things for them without asking questions
Phrasal Verbs
- Specialized
To continue a pregnancy until the baby is fully developed and ready to be born
- Specialized
To move something unused from one period to the next so it can still be used
- Informal
Support or defend someone in a group, often without getting anything
- Specialized
Subtract a loss or unused tax credit from the previous year's taxable income to reduce tax for that year
- Informal
Have problems from the past that still affect your feelings or actions
Compounds
- Specialized
Using skill or knowledge from one situation in another similar situation
- Specialized
A way of carrying a person over your shoulders to move them quickly
- Specialized
An amount of profit or loss that a company moves from a past financial period to the next period
How Strong
Surface Forms
Etymology
Carry originally meant to hold or bear a load, and that meaning extended to ideas or responsibilities you keep with you. So, when something 'carries' a risk or a fine, it means it 'has' or 'brings' that quality with it.