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brought to

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

Meaning of bring to

Verb

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

  1. To restore consciousness.
    • The smelling salts will bring him to.
  2. To make something equal to a different amount.
    • This brings your total to twenty dollars.
  3. (transitive) To turn into the wind; to check the course of (a ship) by trimming the sails so as to counteract each other.

Questions about brought to

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

Words near brought to in the dictionary

  1. brought suit
  2. brought the curtain down
  3. brought the house down
  4. brought the wood
  5. brought through
  6. brought to
  7. brought to a boil
  8. brought to a close
  9. brought to a head
  10. brought to an end
  11. brought to bear

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