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brings up

brings up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bring up.

Meaning of bring up

Verb

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

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bring, up: To bring from a lower to a higher position.
    • When you're in the basement, can you bring up the paints?
  2. To mention.
    • Don't bring up politics if you want to have a quiet conversation with that guy.
  3. To raise or rear (children).
    • In the present writer's opinion there was no greater and more successful locomotive engineer in the country, during the first quarter-century, than George Jackson Churchward of the Great Western Railway. This statement is made without prejudice, for I was brought up on the other line extending from...1957 July, C. Hamilton Ellis, “Six Decades of Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 471
  4. To uncover, to bring from obscurity; to resurface (e.g. a memory)
    • A short Internet search brought up some amazing details of this story.
    Synonyms:
    bring back
  5. To turn on power or start, as of a machine.
    • Wait a minute while I bring up my computer.
  6. To check (a newly-assembled printed circuit board) for errors.
    • Anyone who's been tasked with bringing up a board knows how trying it is.

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Questions about brings up

What is brings up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Brings up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bring up.

Words near brings up in the dictionary

  1. brings to terms
  2. brings to the hammer
  3. brings to the table
  4. brings together
  5. brings under
  6. brings up
  7. brings up against
  8. brings up short
  9. brings up the rear
  10. brings up to
  11. brings upon

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