carry
verb [T] (HAVE WITH YOU) /ˈkær.i/
/ˈker-/ Definition
B1 to have something with you all the time: Police officers in Britain do not usually carry guns.figurative He will carry the memory of the accident with him (= will remember the accident) for ever.Having and owning - general words
(Definition of carry verb (HAVE WITH YOU) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Belongings and possessions
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Synonyms and related words:
- -owned suffix
- attach to sb/sth phrasal verb
- be endowed with sth idiom
- bearer noun
- belong to sb phrasal verb
- boast verb (HAVE)
- call verb (CONSIDER)
- glint verb
- hold verb (CONTROL)
- interest noun (LEGAL RIGHT)
- make sth (all) your own idiom
- mistress noun (WOMAN IN CONTROL)
- not/never want for anything idiom
- own determiner, pronoun
- owner noun
- proprietress noun
- reside in sth/sb phrasal verb
- revert to sb phrasal verb
- stake somewhere/sth out phrasal verb
- title noun (LEGAL RIGHT)
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