Carry and Place

Carry

Carry verb - To support and take from one place to another.

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Place and carry are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Place" instead a verb "Carry".

Nearby Words: carriage, carried, carrier, carrying, carri

Place verb - To arrange something in a certain spot or position.

Usage example: he carefully placed the flowers in a vase

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Carry and place are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Carry" instead a verb "Place".

Nearby Words: placed, placement, placing, placer, placet

people	carry people	place people
body	carry body	place body
number	carry number	place number
bomb	carry bomb	place bomb
Other words: time, money, troops, weapon, child, items, player, gun, weapons, guns, explosives, bombs.

Rape, Pillage, and Burn: Hagar and his crew pillage a lot, and occasionally they burn the place and carry away women for unspecified purposes.

Source: Comic Strip / Hägar the Horrible
Zachary Hale Comstock in BioShock Infinite is revealed early on to be suffering from terminal cancer and is in the process of grooming his daughter Elizabeth to rule Columbia in his place and carry out his plan to destroy the world below.

Source: Dark Lord on Life Support
He can levitate himself just fine, but needs her to carry him around to get from place to place without disturbing anyone.

Source: Never a Self-Made Woman

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