carry through verb3 •To manage to execute; to perform successfully, all the way to the end.But, you know, Max, I am pledged to carry through the Vandeeming affair here in town. — 1923 •To succeed; to make it.It is an old tradition carried through into the information age. •To bring through difficulties etc.An agreeable sense of victory and the afterglow of the flash carried Emily through the afternoon in spite of the fact that Miss Brownell ridiculed her for her mistakes in spelling. — 1923 formscarried through · carrying through · carries through