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cart

2 verb
     
cart2 [transitive always + adverb/preposition]
1 to take something somewhere in a cart, truck etc
cart something away
Household waste is carted away by the city's Sanitation Department.
2 informal to carry something somewhere, especially something that is heavy or difficult to carry:
We carted all the furniture upstairs.

cart somebody off/away

phrasal verb
to take someone somewhere, especially to prison or hospital:
He collapsed and had to be carted off to hospital.
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