BRING AROUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bring around mean? 

• BRING AROUND (verb)
  The verb BRING AROUND has 3 senses:

1. cause to adopt an opinion or course of action

2. provide a cure for, make healthy again

3. return to consciousness

  Familiarity information: BRING AROUND used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRING AROUND (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to adopt an opinion or course of action

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

bring around; bring round

Context example:

His urgent letter finally brought me around to give money to the school

Hypernyms (to "bring around" is one way to...):

persuade (cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action; twist somebody's arm)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Provide a cure for, make healthy again

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

bring around; cure; heal

Context example:

The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to

Hypernyms (to "bring around" is one way to...):

aid; help (improve the condition of)

"Bring around" entails doing...:

care for; treat (provide treatment for)

Domain category:

medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bring around"):

recuperate (restore to good health or strength)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 3

Meaning:

Return to consciousness

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

bring around; bring back; bring round; bring to

Context example:

These pictures bring back sad memories

Hypernyms (to "bring around" is one way to...):

arouse; awaken; rouse; wake; wake up; waken (cause to become awake or conscious)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bring around"):

resuscitate; revive (cause to regain consciousness)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody