BRING TO

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does bring to mean? 

• BRING TO (verb)
  The verb BRING TO has 1 sense:

1. return to consciousness

  Familiarity information: BRING TO used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRING TO (verb)

Sense 1

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 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 

I look down on the line of boys below me, with a condescending interest in such of them as bring to my mind the boy I was myself, when I first came there.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If there was nothing to bring to light, you would have sailed through that new moon more easily.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

“How now, sirrah? What message do you bring to us from our brother of Navarre?”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Oh, what will to-morrow bring to us?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

These domain objects are related to each other, and examining these relationships can bring to the surface biomedical knowledge that was previously buried in the various primary data sources.

(Cancer Bioinformatics Infrastructure Objects, NCI Thesaurus)

Hungry as he was, he would not move to receive his ration of fish, which François had to bring to him.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Pray bring to your mind how often I desired you to consider, when you insisted on the motive of public good, that the Yahoos were a species of animals utterly incapable of amendment by precept or example: and so it has proved; for, instead of seeing a full stop put to all abuses and corruptions, at least in this little island, as I had reason to expect; behold, after above six months warning, I cannot learn that my book has produced one single effect according to my intentions.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Well, said the old dame, that is no very hard task: only take care not to drink any of the wine which one of the princesses will bring to you in the evening; and as soon as she leaves you pretend to be fast asleep.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Nay, there is but one thing that can draw the sting, and that the future may bring to me.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I never thought, proceeded Annie, with a heightened colour, of any worldly gain that my husband would bring to me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)