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  • 1bring — [v1] transport or accompany attend, back, bear, buck*, carry, chaperon, companion, conduct, consort, convey, deliver, escort, fetch, gather, guide, gun*, heel*, import, lead, lug, pack, pick up, piggyback*, ride, schlepp*, shoulder, take, take… …

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  • 2bring to pass — To bring about, cause to happen • • • Main Entry: ↑pass …

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  • 3bring — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. fetch, carry, convey, conduct; command (a price); cause, occasion. See transportation. Ant., leave. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To transport] Syn. convey, take along, carry, bear, fetch, deliver,… …

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  • 4bring about — I (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To achieve] Syn. do, accomplish, realize; see achieve 1 , 2 , succeed 1 . 2. [To cause] Syn. produce, effect, engender, make happen; see begin 1 , cause 2 , manage 1 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb To be the cause of: bring …

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  • 5bring on — I (Roget s IV) v. Syn. cause, lead to, provoke; see begin 1 , cause 2 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb To be the cause of: bring, bring about, cause, effect, effectuate, generate, induce, ingenerate, lead to, make, occasion, result in, secure,… …

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  • 6bring something about — 1 the affair that brought about her death: CAUSE, produce, give rise to, result in, lead to, occasion, bring to pass; provoke, generate, engender, precipitate; …

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  • 7Bring — Bring, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Brought}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bringing}.] [OE. bringen, AS. bringan; akin to OS. brengian, D. brengen, Fries. brenga, OHG. bringan, G. bringen, Goth. briggan.] 1. To convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be;… …

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  • 8cause — 1 n 1: something that brings about an effect or result the negligent act which was the cause of the plaintiff s injury ◇ The cause of an injury must be proven in both tort and criminal cases. actual cause: cause in fact in this entry but–for… …

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  • 9bring — W1S1 [brıŋ] v past tense and past participle brought [bro:t US bro:t] [T] [: Old English; Origin: bringan] 1.) a) to take something or someone with you to the place where you are now, or to the place you are talking about →↑take ▪ Did you bring… …

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  • 10bring — [briŋ] vt. brought, bringing [ME bringen < OE bringan < IE base * bhrenk , *bronk > Welsh he brwng, to bring, lead] 1. to carry or lead (a person or thing) to the place thought of as “here” or to a place where the speaker will be [bring… …

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