More definitions of "bring":
- (verb): Avance or set forth in court.
Example: "Bring charges", "institute proceedings"
Synonyms: institute
- (verb): Attract the attention of.
Example: "The noise and the screaming brought the curious"
- (verb): Induce or persuade.
Example: "The confession of one of the accused brought the others to admit to the crime as well"
- (verb): Go or come after and bring or take back.
Example: "Could you bring the wine?"
Synonyms: get, convey, fetch
- (verb): Take something or somebody with oneself somewhere.
Example: "Bring me the box from the other room"
Synonyms: convey, take
- (verb): Bring into a different state.
Synonyms: land
- (verb): Bestow a quality on.
Synonyms: lend, impart, bestow, contribute, add
- (verb): Cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
Example: "Bring comments"
Synonyms: work, play, wreak, make for
- (verb): Cause to come into a particular state or condition.
Example: "Long hard years of on the job training had brought them to their competence"; "bring water to the boiling point"
Famous quotes containing the word bring:
“The death of William Tecumseh Sherman, which took place to-day at his residence in the city of New York at 1 o’clock and 50 minutes p.m., is an event that will bring sorrow to the heart of every patriotic citizen. No living American was so loved and venerated as he.”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)
“Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Indeed, I believe that in the future, when we shall have seized again, as we will seize if we are true to ourselves, our own fair part of commerce upon the sea, and when we shall have again our appropriate share of South American trade, that these railroads from St. Louis, touching deep harbors on the gulf, and communicating there with lines of steamships, shall touch the ports of South America and bring their tribute to you.”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)