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Definition of Bring round

1. Verb. Cause to adopt an opinion or course of action. "His urgent letter finally brought me around to give money to the school"

2. Verb. Return to consciousness. "These pictures bring back sad memories"

Definition of Bring round

1. Verb. (transitive) To bring something when coming. ¹

2. Verb. (idiomatic transitive) To resuscitate; to cause to regain consciousness ¹

3. Verb. (idiomatic transitive) to change one's opinion or point of view ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bring Round

bring down the house bring forth bring forward bring home bring home the bacon bring in bring it bring it weak bring off bring on

bring one's arse to an anchor bring oneself bring out bring outside bring owls to Athens bring round (current term) bring someone to book bring something to its knees bring the lumber bring through

bring to bring to a boil bring to bear bring to heel bring to justice bring to light bring to mind bring to the table bring together bring up

Literary usage of Bring round

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"30 Destiny sat by, and said, Hide in false peace your coward head, ' Pang for pang your seed shall pay, I bring round the harvest day. ..."

2. Ancient laws of Ireland by Ireland, John O'Donovan, Eugene O'Curry, William Neilson Hancock, Thaddeus O'Mahony, Alexander George Richey, William Maunsell Hennessy, Robert Atkinson (1901)
"I bring round ; bring about, effect, produce ; and so make, work in (metal) ; exercise, practice (theft, >Vc.), inflict (wound); take part in (games, play, ..."

3. A Cyclopedia of the Literature of Amateur Journalism by Truman Joseph Spencer (1891)
"May soon the circling year bring round Another glad October ! ODE TO GREECE. 0 glorious land of poet and of sage, Of ardent youth and patriotic age— ..."

4. Institutes of Metaphysic: The Theory of Knowing and Being by James Frederick Ferrier (1854)
"Each answer, as I it wards off its own question, must always be of such Ia character as to bring round a new question into view. This is exemplified in the ..."

5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1826)
"But to bring round such desirable results, in such a country, we must go about the great and important work in a rational way—we must go about it like men ..."

6. Capital (1888)
"Mr. It is in this context of the peace-makers' failure to bring round Mr. Desai that the Bihar Chief Minister, ..."

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