cart someone off
collocation
informal
to take someone away from a place and transport them somewhere else by using force:
The men were arrested and carted off to the police station.
He is worried that his family might cart him off to a care home.
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We watched as the police rounded up the protesters and carted them off.
She was carted off by two police officers and spent the night in jail.
His brothers and father were carted off and interrogated for nine hours.
At the age of eight they carted me off to boarding school.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Transferring and transporting objects
air freight
bear
bearer
borne
bring
budge
carry
conveyance
hump
import
light speed
manhandle
paper round
payload
pick
pick someone/something up
shunt
transference
truck
wheel
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