Meaning

4 senses
  1. (idiomatic, transitive)To cause.

    Excessive drinking can bring on depression.

    Does stress bring the headaches on?

    cause to arise

  2. (idiomatic, transitive)To make something appear, as on a stage or a place of competition.

    cause to appear

  3. (US, idiomatic, informal, intransitive, often)To pose a challenge or threat; to attack; to compete aggressively.

  4. (slang, transitive)To hire or initiate a new employee or participant in a project.

    I'll bring them on at the end of the month.

Examples

75 sentences
  1. Bring it on, Tom.

    Ну ж бо, Томе. — deniko

  2. Bring it on.

    Ну ж бо, давай! — deniko

  3. Tom brought this all on himself.

  4. I brought Tom here on Monday.

  5. Can I bring this on board?

Translations

3 languages

Forms

brings on, bringing on, brought on, brought on
Base formbring on · to bring on
3rd person singularbrings on
Present participlebringing on
Past simplebrought on
Past participlebrought on

irregular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybring on
he, she, itbrings on

Past simpleLesson

all personsbrought on

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave brought on
he, she, ithas brought on

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill bring on

Phrasal verbs

16 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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