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transport verb

• take or carry (people or goods) from one place to another by means of a vehicle, aircraft, or ship.
• "the bulk of freight traffic was transported by lorry"
Similar: convey, carry, take, transfer, move, shift, bring, fetch, send, deliver, bear, conduct, haul, lug, cart, run, ship, ferry,
• overwhelm (someone) with a strong emotion, especially joy.
• "she was transported with pleasure"
Similar: thrill, delight, ravish, carry away, enrapture, entrance, enchant, enthral, electrify, captivate, bewitch, fascinate, spellbind, charm, overjoy, elate, send,

transport noun

• a system or means of conveying people or goods from place to place.
• "many possess their own forms of transport"
Similar: conveyance, transportation, transfer, transference, transmission, movement, vehicle, car, carriage, carrier,
• an overwhelmingly strong emotion.
• "art can send people into transports of delight"
Similar: frenzy, fit, rhapsody, intense feeling, strong emotion, passion, fervour, vehemence, rapture, ecstasy, elation, exaltation, exhilaration, euphoria, bliss, seventh heaven, heaven, paradise, high, cloud nine,
Origin: late Middle English: from Old French transporter or Latin transportare, from trans- ‘across’ + portare ‘carry’.


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