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brought off

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

Meaning of bring off

Verb

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

  1. To succeed in doing something considered to be very difficult.
    • I don't know how, but he managed to bring off the Acme Foods deal.
  2. To bring to orgasm.
    • And when I'd come and really finished, then she'd start on her own account, and I had to stop inside her till she brought herself off, wriggling and shouting, she'd clutch clutch with herself down there, an' then she'd come off, fair in ecstasy1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XIV, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC
  3. (archaic) To rescue; to liberate.
    • I'll be ta'en too, Or bring him off.c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
  4. To bring away from; to bring by boat from a ship, a wreck, the shore, etc.
  5. (slang, transitive) To steal.
  6. (obsolete) To prove; to demonstrate; to show clearly.

Questions about brought off

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

Words near brought off in the dictionary

  1. brought into line
  2. brought into play
  3. brought it
  4. brought it weak
  5. brought low
  6. brought off
  7. brought on
  8. brought one's arse to an anchor
  9. brought one's arse to anchor
  10. brought one's ass to an anchor
  11. brought one's ass to anchor

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