Definition of Bring around

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

Exact synonyms: Bring Round
Generic synonyms: Persuade

2. Verb. Provide a cure for, make healthy again. "The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to"
Exact synonyms: Cure, Heal
Category relationships: Medicine, Practice Of Medicine
Entails: Care For, Treat
Generic synonyms: Aid, Help
Specialized synonyms: Recuperate
Derivative terms: Curable, Curative, Cure, Healer

3. Verb. Return to consciousness. "These pictures bring back sad memories"
Exact synonyms: Bring Back, Bring Round, Bring To
Generic synonyms: Arouse, Awaken, Rouse, Wake, Wake Up, Waken
Specialized synonyms: Resuscitate, Revive
Antonyms: Anesthetize

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bring Around

brindleyite
brine
brine fly
brine shrimp
brined
brineless
brinelled
brinelling
briner
briners
brines
bring
bring-and-buy
bring a knife to a gunfight
bring about
bring around (current term)
bring back
bring down
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

Literary usage of Bring around

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

1. The Queen V. Palmer: Verbatim Report of the Trial of William Palmer at the by William Palmer, Angelo Bennett, Great Britain Central Criminal Court (1856)
"... for a man of fifty. which were of a nature to destroy his character and to bring around his head the suspicion of another murder. Mr. Attorney-General. ..."

2. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1888)
"He did not bring around the policy; he kept the policy. During the Fourth we did not have any policy at all. Right after the Fourth he brought it around. ..."

3. The Standard-phonographic Dictionary by Andrew Jackson Graham (1890)
"... bring around, Ber'-Iug-Arnd. Bring back, Ber'-Ing-Bec-(Kay). Bring down, Ber'-Ing-Den. Bring forth, Bcr -Ing-Kf-(lth). ..."

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