BRING BACK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bring back mean? 

• BRING BACK (verb)
  The verb BRING BACK has 2 senses:

1. bring back to the point of departure

2. return to consciousness

  Familiarity information: BRING BACK used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRING BACK (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bring back to the point of departure

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

bring back; return; take back

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Return to consciousness

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

bring around; bring back; bring round; bring to

Context example:

These pictures bring back sad memories

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

 Context examples 

Elizabeth most thankfully consented, and a servant was dispatched to Longbourn to acquaint the family with her stay and bring back a supply of clothes.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

All her pretty ways too—there was not one of them which he could not suggest and bring back to my memory.

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

A merchant, who had three daughters, was once setting out upon a journey; but before he went he asked each daughter what gift he should bring back for her.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

And I'll thank you for that bag, Mrs. Crossley, to bring back our lawful money in.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He prowled about with this equipment himself, but it was a poor show of plants which he would bring back of an evening.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He could not have chosen better; that was a topic to bring back her attention and her looks almost instantly.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

But my affair is widely different; I bring back my heroine to her home in solitude and disgrace; and no sweet elation of spirits can lead me into minuteness.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I shall not dare to publish these articles unless I can bring back my proofs to England, or I shall be hailed as the journalistic Munchausen of all time.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Em'ly was took bad with fever, and, what is very strange to me is,—maybe 'tis not so strange to scholars,—the language of that country went out of her head, and she could only speak her own, that no one unnerstood. She recollects, as if she had dreamed it, that she lay there always a-talking her own tongue, always believing as the old boat was round the next pint in the bay, and begging and imploring of 'em to send theer and tell how she was dying, and bring back a message of forgiveness, if it was on'y a wured.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When once more alone, I reviewed the information I had got; looked into my heart, examined its thoughts and feelings, and endeavoured to bring back with a strict hand such as had been straying through imagination's boundless and trackless waste, into the safe fold of common sense.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)