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What does carried away mean?

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Adjective
  1. (idiomatic) Made excessively emotional or excited, so that one goes too far.
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Anyway, prices were marked down to fifty, even seventy percent, and I got carried away and bought stuff, too.
However, let us not get carried away by this success and be realistic and pragmatic with our oil windfall.
Within minutes, the injured were being carried away on stretchers, clad in thermal blankets to keep them warm against shock.
Survivors, alone or in pairs, carried away limp victims covered with blood and sand.
A few public men, carried away by the excitement, attempted to justify these killings.
People in the world of health and medicine sometimes become carried away by the obvious rightness or righteousness of their cause.

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