Verbs starting with C

• carry off — Verb – English ～ be successful; achieve a goal; "She succeeded in persuading us all"; "I managed to carry the box upstairs"; "She pulled it off, even though we never thought her capable of it"; "The pianist negociated the difficult runs"
• cart off — Verb – English ～ take away by means of a vehicle; "They carted off the old furniture"
• carry off — Verb – English ～ remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state; "Their dreams carried the Romantics away into distant lands"; "The car carried us off to the meeting"; "I'll take you away on a holiday"; "I got carried away when I saw the dead man and I started to cry"
• cast off — Verb – English ～ get rid of; "he shed his image as a pushy boss"; "shed your clothes"
• close off — Verb – English ～ isolate or separate; "She was shut off from the friends"
• come off — Verb – English ～ come to be detached; "His retina detached and he had to be rushed into surgery"
• come off — Verb – English ～ break off (a piece from a whole); "Her tooth chipped"
• clear off — Verb – English ～ remove from sight
• click off — Verb – English ～ perform or finish an action rapidly; "The game was clicked off in 1:48"
• come off — Verb – English ～ happen in a particular manner; "how did your talk go over?"
• close off — Verb – English ～ stem the flow of; "shut off the gas when you leave for a vacation"
• clock off — Verb – English ～ register one's departure from work
• close off — Verb – English ～ block off the passage through; "We shut off the valve"
• concentrate on — Verb – English ～ center upon; "Her entire attention centered on her children"; "Our day revolved around our work"
• cycle on — Verb – English ～ come to the starting point of a cycle
• couple on — Verb – English ～ link together; "can we couple these proposals?"
• count on — Verb – English ～ judge to be probable
• cotton on — Verb – English ～ understand, usually after some initial difficulty; "She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on"
• center on — Verb – English ～ have as a center; "The region centers on Charleston"
• cheat on — Verb – English ～ be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?"

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