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carting off

carting off is the present participle and gerund of cart off.

Meaning of cart off

Verb

cart off (third-person singular simple present carts off, present participle carting off, simple past and past participle carted off)

  1. (informal, transitive) To transport away.
    • Los Angeles is under permanent lockdown, and daily health checks are mandatory, the sick carted off to the ominous Q-Zone by armed sanitation workers in yellow hazmat suits.2020 December 10, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “The first movie inspired by the pandemic is here, and it sucks”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 21 Dec 2020

Questions about carting off

What is carting off the present participle and gerund of?
Carting off is the present participle and gerund of cart off.

Words near carting off in the dictionary

  1. cartileges
  2. cartiliginous
  3. cartilogenesis
  4. carting
  5. carting away
  6. carting off
  7. cartings
  8. cartinine
  9. cartist
  10. cartists
  11. Cartland

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