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bring  (brng)

tr.v. brought (brôt), bring·ing, brings

1. To carry, convey, lead, or cause to go along to another place: brought enough money with me.

2. To carry as an attribute or contribution: You bring many years of experience to your new post.

3. To lead or force into a specified state, situation, or location: bring the water to a boil; brought the meeting to a close.

4.

a. To persuade; induce: The defendant's testimony brought others to confess.

b. To get the attention of; attract: Smoke and flames brought the neighbors.

5. To cause to occur as a consequence or concomitant: Floods brought destruction to the valley. For many, the fall brings hayfever.

6. To cause to become apparent to the mind; recall: This music brings back memories.

7. Law To advance or set forth (charges) in a court.

8. To sell for: a portrait that brought a million dollars.

Phrasal Verbs:

bring around/round

1. To cause to adopt an opinion or take a certain course of action.

2. To cause to recover consciousness.

bring down

1. To cause to fall or collapse.

2. To kill.

bring forth

1. To give rise to; produce: plants bringing forth fruit.

2. To give birth to (young).

bring forward

1. To present; produce: bring forward proof.

2. Accounting To carry (a sum) from one page or column to another.

bring in

1. Law To give or submit (a verdict) to a court.

2. To produce, yield, or earn (profits or income).

bring off

To accomplish: bring off a successful advertising campaign.

bring on

To cause to appear: brought on the dessert.

bring out

1.

a. To reveal or expose: brought out the facts.

b. To introduce (a debutante) to society.

2. To produce or publish: bring out a new book.

3. To nurture and develop (a quality, for example) to best advantage: You bring out the best in me.

bring to

1. To cause to recover consciousness.

2. Nautical To cause (a ship) to turn into the wind or come to a stop.

bring up

1. To take care of and educate (a child); rear.

2. To introduce into discussion; mention.

3. To vomit.

4. To cause to come to a sudden stop.

Idioms:

bring down the house

To win overwhelming approval from an audience.

bring home

To make perfectly clear: a lecture that brought home several important points.

bring home the bacon

1. To earn a living, especially for a family.

2. To achieve desired results; have success.

bring to bear

1. To exert; apply: bring pressure to bear on the student's parents.

2. To put (something) to good use: "All of one's faculties are brought to bear in an effort to become fully incorporated into the landscape" Barry Lopez.

bring to light

To reveal or disclose: brought the real facts to light.

bring to mind

To cause to be remembered: Thoughts of fishing brought to mind our youth.

bring to (one's) knees

To reduce to a position of subservience or submission.

bring to terms

To force (another) to agree.

bring up the rear

To be the last in a line or sequence.

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[Middle English bringen, from Old English bringan; see bher-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

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bringer n.

Usage Note: In most dialects of American English bring is used to denote motion toward the place of speaking or the place from which the action is regarded: Bring it over here. The prime minister brought a large retinue to Washington with her. Take is used to denote motion away from such a place: Take it over there. The President will take several advisers with him when he goes to Moscow. When the relevant point of focus is not the place of speaking itself, the difference obviously depends on the context. We can say either The labor leaders brought or took their requests to the mayor's office, depending on whether we want to describe things from the point of view of the labor leaders or the mayor. Perhaps for this reason, the distinction between bring and take has been blurred in some areas; a parent may say of a child, for example, She always takes a pile of books home with her from school. This usage may sound curious to those who are accustomed to observe the distinction more strictly, but it bears no particular stigma of incorrectness or illiteracy.·The form brung is common in colloquial use in many areas, even among educated speakers, but it is not standard in formal writing.

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bring

Verb

[bringing, brought]

1. to carry, convey, or take (something or someone) to a designated place or person

2. to cause to happen: responsibility brings maturity

3. to cause to come to mind: it brought back memories

4. to cause to be in a certain state, position, etc.: the punch brought him to his knees

5. to make (oneself): she couldn't bring herself to do it

6. to sell for: the painting brought a large sum

7. Law

a. to institute (proceedings, charges, etc.)

b. to put (evidence, etc.) before a tribunal

See also bring about, bring down, etc. [Old English bringan]

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	bring - take something or somebody with oneself somewhere; "Bring me the box from the other room"; "Take these letters to the boss"; "This brings me to the main point" convey, take fetch, bring, get, convey - go or come after and bring or take back; "Get me those books over there, please"; "Could you bring the wine?"; "The dog fetched the hat" fetch - take away or remove; "The devil will fetch you!" bring - be accompanied by; "Can I bring my cousin to the dinner?" carry, transport - move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body; "You must carry your camping gear"; "carry the suitcases to the car"; "This train is carrying nuclear waste"; "These pipes carry waste water into the river" transit - cause or enable to pass through; "The canal will transit hundreds of ships every day" ferry - transport from one place to another bring back, take back, return - bring back to the point of departure tube - convey in a tube; "inside Paris, they used to tube mail" whisk - move somewhere quickly; "The President was whisked away in his limo" channel, transmit, carry, impart, conduct, convey - transmit or serve as the medium for transmission; "Sound carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound"; "Many metals conduct heat" land - bring ashore; "The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island" land, put down, bring down - cause to come to the ground; "the pilot managed to land the airplane safely" bring down, let down, lower, take down, get down - move something or somebody to a lower position; "take down the vase from the shelf" lift, raise, elevate, get up, bring up - raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load" bring forward, advance - cause to move forward; "Can you move the car seat forward?" bring on, bring out, produce - bring onto the market or release; "produce a movie"; "bring out a book"; "produce a new play" bring on, bring out, produce - bring onto the market or release; "produce a movie"; "bring out a book"; "produce a new play"
	2.	bring - cause to come into a particular state or condition; "Long hard years of on the job training had brought them to their competence"; "bring water to the boiling point" alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" issue, publish, bring out, release, put out - prepare and issue for public distribution or sale; "publish a magazine or newspaper" bring together, join - cause to become joined or linked; "join these two parts so that they fit together"
	3.	bring - cause to happen or to occur as a consequence; "I cannot work a miracle"; "wreak havoc"; "bring comments"; "play a joke"; "The rain brought relief to the drought-stricken area" make for, wreak, work, play create, make - make or cause to be or to become; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor" work, act - have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected; "The voting process doesn't work as well as people thought"; "How does your idea work in practice?"; "This method doesn't work"; "The breaks of my new car act quickly"; "The medicine works only if you take it with a lot of water" bring off, carry off, manage, negociate, pull off - be successful; achieve a goal; "She succeeded in persuading us all"; "I managed to carry the box upstairs"; "She pulled it off, even though we never thought her capable of it"; "The pianist negociated the difficult runs" bring on, induce - cause to arise; "induce a crisis" bring up, call down, conjure, conjure up, invoke, call forth, put forward, arouse, evoke, stir, raise - summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "call down the spirits from the mountain"
	4.	bring - go or come after and bring or take back; "Get me those books over there, please"; "Could you bring the wine?"; "The dog fetched the hat" fetch, get, convey retrieve - run after, pick up, and bring to the master; "train the dog to retrieve" retrieve - go for and bring back; "retrieve the car from the parking garage" channel, channelise, channelize, transmit, transport, transfer - send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message" deliver - bring to a destination, make a delivery; "our local super market delivers" bring, convey, take - take something or somebody with oneself somewhere; "Bring me the box from the other room"; "Take these letters to the boss"; "This brings me to the main point" bear away, bear off, carry away, take away, carry off - remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state; "Their dreams carried the Romantics away into distant lands"; "The car carried us off to the meeting"; "I'll take you away on a holiday"; "I got carried away when I saw the dead man and I started to cry"
	5.	bring - bring into a different state; "this may land you in jail" land alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" cut down, reduce, trim back, trim down, cut, cut back, trim, bring down - cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits" parent, bring up, nurture, rear, raise - bring up; "raise a family"; "bring up children"
	6.	bring - be accompanied by; "Can I bring my cousin to the dinner?" bring, convey, take - take something or somebody with oneself somewhere; "Bring me the box from the other room"; "Take these letters to the boss"; "This brings me to the main point"
	7.	bring - advance or set forth in court; "bring charges", "institute proceedings" institute create, make - make or cause to be or to become; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor"
	8.	bring - bestow a quality on; "Her presence lends a certain cachet to the company"; "The music added a lot to the play"; "She brings a special atmosphere to our meetings"; "This adds a light note to the program" contribute, lend, impart, add, bestow alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" factor - be a contributing factor; "make things factor into a company's profitability" instill, transfuse - impart gradually; "Her presence instilled faith into the children"; "transfuse love of music into the students" tinsel - impart a cheap brightness to; "his tinseled image of Hollywood" throw in - add as an extra or as a gratuity
	9.	bring - be sold for a certain price; "The painting brought $10,000"; "The old print fetched a high price at the auction" fetch, bring in
	10.	bring - attract the attention of; "The noise and the screaming brought the curious" bring - induce or persuade; "The confession of one of the accused brought the others to admit to the crime as well" attract, pull in, draw in, pull, draw - direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes; "Her good looks attract the stares of many men"; "The ad pulled in many potential customers"; "This pianist pulls huge crowds"; "The store owner was happy that the ad drew in many new customers"
	11.	bring - induce or persuade; "The confession of one of the accused brought the others to admit to the crime as well" cause, induce, stimulate, make, get, have - cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner; "The ads induced me to buy a VCR"; "My children finally got me to buy a computer"; "My wife made me buy a new sofa" bring - attract the attention of; "The noise and the screaming brought the curious"

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bring

verb 1. fetch, take, carry, bear, transfer, deliver, transport, import, convey

verb 2. take, guide, conduct, accompany, escort, usher

verb 3. cause, produce, create, effect, occasion, result in, contribute to, inflict, wreak, engender

verb 4. make, force, influence, convince, persuade, prompt, compel, induce, move, dispose, sway, prevail on or upon

bring someone up rear, raise, support, train, develop, teach, nurse, breed, foster, educate, care for, nurture

bring something about cause, produce, create, effect, manage, achieve, occasion, realize, generate, accomplish, give rise to, make happen, effectuate, bring to pass

bring something down

1. overturn, reduce, undermine, overthrow, abase

2. reduce, cut, drop, lower, slash, decrease

3. cut down, level, fell, hew, lop, raze

4. demolish, level, destroy, dismantle, flatten, knock down, pull down, tear down, bulldoze, raze, kennet Austral. (slang) jeff Austral. (slang)

bring something in

1. introduce, start, found, launch, establish, set up, institute, organize, pioneer, initiate, usher in, inaugurate

2. produce, return, net, realize, generate, be worth, yield, gross, fetch, accrue

bring something off accomplish, achieve, perform, carry out, succeed, execute, discharge, pull off, carry off, bring to pass

bring something up

1. mention, raise, introduce, point out, refer to, allude to, broach, call attention to, speak about or of

Translations

bring [pt, pp brought] [brɪŋ, brɔːt] vt [+ thing] → traer [+ person]; conducir;

to bring sth to an end → terminar con algo;

I can't bring myself to sack him → no soy capaz de echarle

bring about vt → ocasionar, producir

bring back vt → volver a traer (= return); devolver

bring down vt → bajar [+ price]; rebajar

bring forward vt → adelantar;

(BOOKKEEPING) → sumar y seguir

bring in vt [+ harvest] → recoger [+ person]; hacer entrar or pasar [+ object]; traer;

(POL) [+ bill, law]; presentar;

(LAW) [+ verdict]; pronunciar (= produce) [+ income] → producir, rendir

bring off vt [+ task, plan] → lograr, conseguir [+ deal]; cerrar

bring out vt [+ object] → sacar [+ new product]; sacar [+ book]; publicar

bring round vt [+ unconscious person] → hacer volver en sí (= convince); convencer

bring up vt [+ person] → educar, criar (= carry up); subir [+ question]; sacar a colación [+ food] (= vomit); devolver, vomitar

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bring [brought , pt, pp ] [brɪŋ, brɔːt] vt [+ thing] → apporter [+ person]; amener;

to bring sth to an end → mettre fin à qch;

I can't bring myself to fire him → je ne peux me résoudre à le mettre à la porte

bring about vt → provoquer, entraîner

bring back vt → rapporter [+ person]; ramener

bring down vt (= lower) → abaisser (= shoot down); abattre [+ government]; faire s'effondrer

bring forward vt → avancer;

(Book-Keeping) → reporter

bring in vt [+ person] → faire entrer;

(object) → rentrer;

(Pol) [+ legislation]; introduire;

(Law) [+ verdict]; rendre (= produce) [+ income] → rapporter

bring off vt [+ task, plan] → réussir, mener à bien [+ deal]; mener à bien

bring on vt [+ illness, attack] → provoquer [+ player, substitute]; amener

bring out vt → sortir [+ meaning]; faire ressortir, mettre en relief [+ new product, book]; sortir

bring round, bring to vt [+ unconscious person] → ranimer

bring up vt → élever (= carry up); monter [+ question]; soulever [+ food] (= vomit); vomir, rendre

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bring [brɪŋ] [brought , pt, pp ] vt → bringen;

(with you) → mitbringen;

to bring sth to an end → etw zu Ende bringen;

I can't bring myself to fire him → ich kann es nicht über mich bringen, ihn zu entlassen

bring about vt → herbeiführen

bring back vt (restore) → wiedereinführen;

(return) → zurückbringen

bring down vt (government) → zu Fall bringen;

(plane) → herunterholen;

(price) → senken

bring forward vt (meeting) → vorverlegen;

(proposal) → vorbringen;

(Bookkeeping) → übertragen

bring in vt (money) → (ein)bringen;

(include) → einbeziehen;

(person) → einschalten;

(legislation) → einbringen;

(verdict) → fällen

bring off vt (plan) → durchführen;

(deal) → zustande bringen

bring out vt → herausholen;

(meaning, book, album) → herausbringen

bring round vt (after faint) → wieder zu Bewusstsein bringen

bring up vt → heraufbringen;

(educate) → erziehen;

(question, subject) → zur Sprache bringen;

(food) → erbrechen

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bring [pt brought, pp ] [brɪŋ, brɔːt] vt → portare;

to bring sth to an end → mettere fine a qc;

I can't bring myself to sack him → non so risolvermi a licenziarlo

bring about vt → causare

bring back vt → riportare

bring down vt (= lower) → far scendere (= shoot down); abbattere [+ government]; far cadere

bring forward vt → portare avanti;

(in time) → anticipare;

(BOOK-KEEPING) → riportare

bring in vt [+ person] → fare entrare [+ object]; portare;

(POL) [+ bill]; presentare: [+ legislation]; introdurre;

(LAW) [+ verdict]; emettere (= produce) [+ income] → rendere

bring off vt [+ task, plan] → portare a compimento [+ deal]; concludere

bring out vt [+ meaning] → mettere in evidenza [+ new product]; lanciare [+ book]; pubblicare, fare uscire

bring round or to vt [+ unconscious person] → far rinvenire

bring up vt → allevare [+ question]; introdurre