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BRING TO
I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Return to consciousness
Example:
These pictures bring back sad memories
Synonyms:
bring around; bring back; bring round; bring to
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "bring to" is one way to...):
arouse; awaken; rouse; wake; wake up; waken (cause to become awake or conscious)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bring to"):
resuscitate; revive (cause to regain consciousness)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Antonym:
anesthetize (administer an anesthetic drug to)
Context examples:
If ever the future should bring to you a time when you need a man's help, believe me, you will not call in vain.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
You may be working on a writing project, such as a book, screenplay, speech, a new podcast series you want to start, an app you want to bring to market, or other project that will rely on your talents in speaking, writing, editing, research, or code writing.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
“By the rood!” he broke out suddenly, slapping his thigh with his great red hand, “I knew that there was something a-missing, but I could not bring to my mind what it was.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“No! Not a bit! On'y let her see my face—on'y let her heer my voice—on'y let my stanning still afore her bring to her thoughts the home she had fled away from, and the child she had been—and if she had growed to be a royal lady, she'd have fell down at my feet! I know'd it well! Many a time in my sleep had I heerd her cry out, “Uncle!” and seen her fall like death afore me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Now, if we allow for two days less for the ship's voyage, owing to such weather influences as we know that the Count can bring to bear; and if we allow a whole day and night for any delays which may occur to us, then we have a margin of nearly two weeks.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Great had been the rejoicing amid the Romsey nuns when the Lady Maude Loring had craved admission into their order—for was she not sole child and heiress of the old knight, with farms and fiefs which she could bring to the great nunnery?
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
