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say it: bring
bring is a verb meaning "take something or somebody with oneself somewhere". It is pronounced /ˈbɹɪŋ/ — bring. It carries 11 recorded senses.
cause to come into a particular state or condition
“Long hard years of on the job training had brought them to their competence”
“bring water to the boiling point”
be accompanied by
“Can I bring my cousin to the dinner?”
induce or persuade
“The confession of one of the accused brought the others to admit to the crime as well”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bring come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.