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BRING AROUND

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Return to consciousnessplay

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 around" 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 around"):

resuscitate; revive (cause to regain consciousness)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Provide a cure for, make healthy againplay

Example:

The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to

Synonyms:

bring around; cure; heal

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "bring around" is one way to...):

aid; help (improve the condition of)

"Bring around" entails doing...:

care for; treat (provide treatment for)

Domain category:

medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bring around"):

recuperate (restore to good health or strength)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cause to adopt an opinion or course of actionplay

Example:

His urgent letter finally brought me around to give money to the school

Synonyms:

bring around; bring round

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "bring around" is one way to...):

persuade (cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action; twist somebody's arm)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

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