to bring around
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5.3
- phrasal verb
- /brɪŋ əˈraʊnd/
:
reanimar
- Some, some fresh air, though, might, uh... might bring her around a little faster.
The cold water may have brought her around.
- The cold water may have brought her around.
Examples
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Well, you bring him around, and I'll talk to him.
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That'll bring him around.
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No, Doc will bring you around.
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- A few hours' sleep will bring him around.
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Just bring him around once in a while where I can get a good look in his eyes.
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I'll get Howard to bring him around.
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I figured you'd bring him around.
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Tell Felipe to bring Mick around for a coffee.
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It brought her around.
Fiction book (1994) -
Getting some sunlight in the garden should bring her around after her long illness.
Synonyms
549
2.4
Make someone healthy again by removing a disease
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1.2
To become healthy again after an injury, illness, or emotional pain
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4.1
To make a person conscious again after fainting
43
7.2
To make someone breathe and wake again after they stop breathing
16
7.2
To bring back life and energy to a person or thing
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4.8
To make people and things alive or working again
Antonyms
How Recovered
Surface Forms
Morphology
The components 'bring' (cause or put into a state) and 'around' (movement/return) give a plausible metaphor of moving someone to a different position, so there is a partial, metaphorical link to 'persuade'. However, the specific sense 'cause someone to change their opinion' is an extended, conventionalized meaning that a B1 learner who only knows the literal words may not reliably infer (and the verb also has a separate sense 'revive'), so it is not fully transparent.
Etymology
Bring around may come from the image of the words bring and around meaning to move someone back to themselves after a faint, like bringing them back to awareness. So it now means 'to restore someone to health or consciousness'.