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bring around

bring around is the alternative form of bring round.

Meaning of bring round

Verb

bring round (third-person singular simple present brings round, present participle bringing round, simple past and past participle brought round)

  1. (transitive) To bring something when coming.
    • Can you bring round some beer when you come tonight?
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To resuscitate; to cause to regain consciousness.
    • We thought he was going to die, but the doctors managed to bring him round.
  3. (idiomatic, transitive) To change someone's opinion or point of view.
    • She was opposed to the new housing development, but we eventually brought her round.

Forms of bring around

third-person singular presentbrings around
present participlebringing around
past participlebrought around
pastbrought around

Questions about bring around

What is bring around the alternative form of?
Bring around is the alternative form of bring round.

Words near bring around in the dictionary

  1. bring a knife to a gunfight
  2. bring a lump to someone's throat
  3. bring about
  4. bring along
  5. bring an end to
  6. bring around
  7. bring away
  8. bring back
  9. bring back to life
  10. bring centre
  11. bring centres

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bring around (page history and authors); bring round (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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