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Definition: Bring Back |
Bring BackVerb1. Bring back to the point of departure. 2. Bring back to consciousness. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Bring BackSynonyms: bring around (v), bring round (v), bring to (v), return (v), take back (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: anesthetize (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Memory | Remind; suggest; (inform ); prompt; put in mind, keep in mind, bring to mind; fan the embers; call up, summon up, rip up; renew; infandum renovare dolorem; jog the memory, flap the memory, refresh the memory, rub up the memory, awaken the memory; pull by the sleeve; bring back to the memory, put in remembrance, memorialize. |
Restitution | Verb: return, restore; give back, carry back, bring back; render, render up; give up; let go, unclutch; disgorge, regorge; regurgitate; recoup, reimburse, compensate, indemnify; remit, rehabilitate; repair; (make good). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bring Back |
| English words defined with "bring back": bring around, bring round, bring to ♦ Gothicize ♦ hoodoo ♦ reestablish, reflect, Reimport, reinstate, Repaganize, restore, return ♦ Slave catcher ♦ take back, To bring to ♦ Vivificate. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bring back": Rowland. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "bring back": Retroduction. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | We'll bring back dinner. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) If you let us go, I'll bring back the sun. (Spies Like Us; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd; Dave Thomas) Oh god, I hope they bring back Elvis. (Independence Day; writing credit: Dean Devlin; Roland Emmerich) Now you see the power of the rock you bring back. (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom; writing credit: George Lucas; Willard Huyck) Yeah, if I get shot you can bring back the food. (El Dorado; writing credit: Leigh Brackett) | |
Lyrics | Just to bring back home, that old sweet sensation (Tryin' To Get The Feeling Again; performing artist: BARRY MANILOW) Just my thoughts about you bring back my piece of mind (My Maria; performing artist: BROOKS & DUNN) Bring back my baby to me (Mirror Mirror; performing artist: M2M) Bring back the jam ! (Sowing The Seeds of Love; performing artist: Tears For Fears) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Pogo]. I instructs my pupils to bring back some of Nature's creatures .. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Help bring back the flowers : vote for Peter Sprague. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | Thirdly, I answer, that this doctrine of a power in the people of providing for their safety a-new, by a new legislative, when their legislators have acted contrary to their trust, by invading their property, is the best fence against rebellion, and the probablest means to hinder it: for rebellion being an opposition, not to persons, but authority, which is founded only in the constitutions and laws of the government; those, whoever they be, who by force break through, and by force justify their violation of them, are truly and properly rebels: for when men, by entering into society and civil-government, have excluded force, and introduced laws for the preservation of property, peace, and unity amongst themselves, those who set up force again in opposition to the laws, do rebellare, that is, bring back again the state of war, and are properly rebels: which they who are in power, (by the pretence they have to authority, the temptation of force they have in their hands, and the flattery of those about them) being likeliest to do; the properest way to prevent the evil, is to shew them the danger and injustice of it, who are under the greatest temptation to run into it. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The hemoglobin molecules in each red blood cell carry oxygen from the lungs to the body organs and tissues and bring back carbon dioxide to the lungs. (references) | |
Business | Some cell phones are being imported illegally into the PA from neighboring countries such as Jordan, Egypt and Dubai where the price of phones may be as much as 50% cheaper than the price of phones found in Israel or the PA. For instance, some people bring back two or three cell phones after going on a trip to other countries in the Middle East and sell them to their friends. (references) | |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | That is the only way we can get the men and bring back our veterans. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | The American people have got to want to change from within if we're going to bring back work and family and community. |
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Expressions using "bring back": bring back to his senses ♦ bring back to life ♦ bring back to the memory ♦ To bring back. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "bring back"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rikujtoj (bring to mind, reminisce), kthej (bandy, bend, bow, convert, disgorge, fold in, give back, head off, lift down, replace, restore, return, slew, throw back, transform, transit, turn, turn aside, turn down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | إستعاد (encore, give back, recapture, reconquer, recoup, recover, recuperate, regain, resume, retrieve, scavenge, take), أعاده الى مكانه. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | въвеждам отново (resurrect), възвръщам (rally, recover), връщам обратно (refund), припомням (bring to mind, recall, retrieve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | připomenout (bring to mind, call up, commemorate, remind). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | terugbrengen, terugbreng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | rapporter. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zurücknehmen (call back, cancel, go back on, recant, retract, reverse, revoke, take back, to take back, withdraw), zurückbringen (get back, move back, restore, return, take back), wiederwählen (re elect, redial, reelect, re-elect), wiedereinführen (reimport, reintroduce), wecken (arouse, awake, awaked, awaken, awoken, call forth, create, excite, kindle, prompt, reveille, revive, rouse, spark, to awake, wake, wake up, waken, waking-up time), erwecken (arouse, awaken, inspire, raise, rouse, wake, wake up), errinern an. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ξαναφέρνω (carry back), επαναφέρω (bring round, reconstitute, restore, retrieve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"חזיר (get back, give back, put back, recall, recover, repay, restore, return). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | visszahoz (carry back, to bring back), felelevenít (brush up, reproduce, to brush up, to evoke, to recall, to resuscitate, to revive, vivify). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | memulangkan (give back). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | riportare (bring again, carry, get, go back, quote, receive, refer, report, retrieve, take again, take back), ricondurre (bring again, take back). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 連れ戻す (to bring back), 引"す (to bring back, to repeat, to retrace one's steps, to send back), 引き"す (to bring back, to repeat, to retrace one's steps, to send back), 引戻す (to bring back, to restore), 引き戻す (to bring back, to restore). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひきかえす (to bring back, to repeat, to retrace one's steps, to send back), ひきもどす (to bring back, to restore), つれもどす (to bring back). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ingbray ackbay avivar (brighten, brisk, enliven, heighten, intensify, refresh, sharpen, smarten, stir, trim, warm). (various references) aduce înapoi, înapoia (behind, give back, kick back, make up, pay back, refund, render, restore, return). (various references) возвращать (give back, pay back, re-cede, redeem, reimburse, repay, return, returned, returned to, revert), приносить обратно. (various references) vratiti (give back, hand back, pay back, reclaim, refund, remand, render, replace, requite, restore, return, send back, take back, turn back), podesiti (adjust, fit, model, modulate, preset, regulate, tune, tune up, zero). (various references) volver con (get back at), volver a traer, traer devuelta, traer a la memoria, restaurar (furbish up, refurbish, renovate, restore), recordar (bear in mind, bethink, eventide, hark back to, look back on, recall, recollect, remember, remind, retrace, retrospect, take back, think, to remember), devolver la vida, devolver (devolve, give back, hand back, hit back, pay back, put back, refund, render, repay, restore, return, send back, send in, take back, throw back). (various references) återföra. (various references) hatırlatmak (be evocative of, be redolent of, bring to mind, call to mind, conjure up, echo, evoke, invoke, put smb. in mind of, recall, remind, remind of), geri getirmek, geri götürmek. (various references) приносити назад, повертати (bend, carry back, disgorge, hand back, reimburse, repay, replace, restore, return, turn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | reduc, reducam, reducamus, reducantur, reducas, reducat, reducendum, reducens, reducent, reducere, reducerem, reduceret, reduces, reducet, reducetque, reducetur, reduci, reducis, reducite, reducitis, reduco, reduxerat, reduxerit, reduxero, reduxerunt, reduxi, reduxisti, reduxistis, reduxit, reduxitque, refero, restauranda, restituam, restituamque, restituar, restituas, restituatur, restitue, restituens, restituent, restituere, restituerentur, restitueretur, restituerit, restituerunt, restitues, restituet, restituetur, restitui, restituit, restituitque, restituta, restituti, restituturum, restitutus, retractu, retrahas, retrahe, retrahente, retrahere, retraxerunt, retraxit. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Job Chapter 33, Verse 30 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | All' errusato thn yuchn mou ek qanatou ina h zwh mou en fwti ainh auton |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Ut revocet animas eorum a corruptione et inluminet luce viventium |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | That he ayeen clepe the soulis of hem fro corupcioun, and liytne in the liyt of liuende men. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Keeping back his soul from the underworld, so that he may see the light of life. |
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| Language | Job Chapter 33, Verse 30 |
| Albanian | për të shpëtuar shpirtin e tij nga gropa dhe për ta ndriçuar me dritën e jetës. |
| Cebuano | Aron sa pagpahauli sa iyang kalag gikan sa gahong, Aron siya kadan-agan sa kahayag sa mga buhi. |
| Chinese | 為 要 從 深 坑 救 回 人 的 靈 魂 、 使 他 被 光 照 耀 與 活 人 一 樣 。 |
| Croatian | da dušu njegovu spasi od jame i da mu život svjetlošæu obasja. |
| Danish | for at redde hans Sjæl fra Graven, så han skuer Livets Lys! |
| Dutch | Opdat hij zijn ziel afkere van het verderf, en hij verlicht worde met het licht der levenden. |
| Finnish | palauttaakseen hänen sielunsa haudasta ja antaakseen elämän valkeuden hänelle loistaa. |
| French | Pour ramener son âme de la fosse, Pour l`éclairer de la lumière des vivants. |
| German | daß er seine Seele zurückhole aus dem Verderben und erleuchte ihn mit dem Licht der Lebendigen. |
| Haitian Creole | pou l' pa kite yo mouri, pou l' ba yo lavi ak kè kontan. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | supaya Ia dapat menyelamatkan manusia dan memberi kebahagiaan dalam hidupnya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | hendak membalikkan jiwanya dari pada kebinasaan, supaya iapun diterangkan oleh terang alhayat. |
| Italian | per sottrarre l'anima sua dalla fossa e illuminarla con la luce dei viventi. |
| Maori | Hei whakahoki mai i tona wairua i roto i te rua, kia whakamaramatia ai ki te marama o te ora. |
| Norwegian | for å frelse hans sjel fra graven, så han omstråles av de levendes lys. |
| Portuguese | para reconduzir a sua alma da cova, a fim de que seja iluminado com a luz dos viventes. |
| Rumanian | ca sq -l ridice din groapq, ca sq -l lumineze cu lumina celor vii. |
| Russian | ЮФП'Щ ПФЧЕУФЙ "ХЫХ ЕЗП ПФ НПЗЙМЩ Й ТПУЧЕФЙФШ ЕЗП УЧЕФПН ЦЙЧЩИ. |
| Spanish | para restaurar su alma de la fosa y para iluminarlo con la luz de la vida. |
| Swedish | till att rädda hans själ från graven, så att han får njuta av de levandes ljus. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"Bring Back" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bring bak. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-b-c-g-i-k-n-r" | |
-1 letter: crabbing. | |
-2 letters: arcking, backing, barbing, barking, bracing, braking, cabbing, carking, racking. | |
-3 letters: arcing, baking, baring, bicarb, caking, caring, rabbin, racing, raking. | |
-4 letters: acing, bairn, baric, brain, brank, brick, bring, brink, cabin, cairn, cigar, crank, garni, grain, kiang, naric, rabbi, rabic. | |
-5 letters: abri, agin, airn, akin, back, bang, bani, bank, barb, bark, barn, birk, brag, bran. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-b-c-g-i-k-n-r" | |
+3 letters: backbreaking, blackbirding. | |
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