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brought about

brought about is the simple past and past participle of bring about.

Meaning of bring about

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To cause to take place.
    • The collapse of the gold standard brought about much of the economic turmoil of that era.
  2. (transitive) To accomplish, to achieve.
    • I hope to bring about a successful conclusion.

Questions about brought about

What is brought about the simple past and past participle of?
Brought about is the simple past and past participle of bring about.

Words near brought about in the dictionary

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

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