"carry through" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-carry through.ogg [Australia] Forms: carries through [present, singular, third-person], carrying through [participle, present], carried through [participle, past], carried through [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} carry through (third-person singular simple present carries through, present participle carrying through, simple past and past participle carried through)
  1. (transitive, idiomatic) To manage to execute; to perform successfully, all the way to the end. Tags: idiomatic, transitive Related terms: carry off, carry out Translations (perform successfully to the end): zu Ende bringen (German), zu Ende führen (German), durchziehen (German), durchführen (German), perpetrō (Latin), peragō (Latin)
    Sense id: en-carry_through-en-verb-A7fCB7BM Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (through) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 83 17 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (through): 77 23 Disambiguation of 'perform successfully to the end': 98 2
  2. To persist or continue
    Sense id: en-carry_through-en-verb-KB~wTyU7

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for carry through meaning in English (3.2kB)

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