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bringe

bringe is the obsolete spelling of bring.

Meaning of bring

Verb

bring (third-person singular simple present brings, present participle bringing, simple past brought or (colloquial, dialectal) brang, past participle brought or (colloquial, dialectal) brung or (rare, dialectal) broughten)

  1. (ditransitive, transitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
    • Waiter, please bring me a single malt whiskey.
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To supply or contribute.
    • The new company director brought a fresh perspective on sales and marketing.
  3. (transitive) To occasion or bring about.
    • Let's bring our differences to an issue.
  4. (transitive) To raise (a lawsuit, charges, etc.) against somebody.
    • It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848
  5. To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.
    • It seems so preposterous a thing[…]that they do not easily bring themselves to it.1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 2, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC, book I, page 11
  6. To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch.
    • What does coal bring per ton?

See all 10 meanings of bring

Forms of bringe

third-person singular presentbringes
third-person singular presentbringeth
present participlebringing
past participlebroughte
pastbroughte

Questions about bringe

What is bringe the obsolete spelling of?
Bringe is the obsolete spelling of bring.

Words near bringe in the dictionary

  1. bringaul
  2. bringauls
  3. bringback
  4. bringdown
  5. bringdowns
  6. bringe
  7. bringed
  8. Bringelly
  9. Bringenbrong
  10. bringer
  11. bringer-out

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bringe (page history and authors); bring (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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