BRING BACK

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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 back" 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 back"):

resuscitate; revive (cause to regain consciousness)

Sentence frames:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Bring back to the point of departure

Synonyms:

bring back; return; take back

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

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

bring; convey; take (take something or somebody with oneself somewhere)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s something PP

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Context examples:

No doubt you will find some sights to amuse you in this venerable city, and I hope to bring back a more favourable report to you before evening.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He must bring back the papers before morning or the loss will be discovered.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then he was to go with him and bring back the stolen money.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

A timely observation of the sense of power that there was in his face, did more to bring back to my remembrance the entreaty of Agnes, in its full force, than any effort I could have made.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I have mentioned the ape-men, and I cannot forbear from saying that some of the sounds which now meet my ears bring back most vividly to my recollection my experiences with those interesting creatures.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the Yale News—and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the well-rounded man.