carry out

To do a task, test, or other activity.

• We carried out the repairs.
• The police are carrying out an investigation.
• Has anyone carried out a safety check?

How to use it: carry out something (The scientists carried out an experiment.)

Similar words: do, perform, conduct

Common phrases: carry out research, carry out repairs

To do what an order or instruction tells you to do.

• They carried out the order.
• Please carry out these instructions exactly.
• The soldiers refused to carry out his command.

How to use it: carry out an order (The officer carried out the order immediately.)

Similar words: obey, follow

Opposites: disobey

Common phrases: carry out orders, carry out instructions

To do what you have planned, promised, or been asked to do.

• She carried out her promise.
• The team carried out its mission.
• Will he carry out his threat?

How to use it: carry out something (They carried out the instructions carefully.)

Similar words: fulfil, execute

Common phrases: carry out plans, carry out instructions

To hold something or someone and take them outside a room, building, or other space.

• Please carry the bags out.
• They carried the injured man out of the house.
• Can you help me carry this table out?

How to use it: carry someone/something out of something (Two men carried the sofa out of the room.)

Similar words: take out

Opposites: carry in

Common phrases: carry out boxes, carry something out