Alternatives for Bring

Alternatives is a recurring post in which I give synonyms for an over used word. Click on the tab above for a "complete" list of over used words.

Today's word is:

Bring is a complicated word with way more synonyms than I realized. I'm bringing you a whole basket full of alternatives.

Depending on how you use it, this list may come in handy for finding another way to say the same thing.

bring/bring about

accompany, accomplish, achieve, add up to, advance, affect, affirm, allow, allure, amount to, appear, argue, arraign, attend, atrract

back, bear, be burdened with something, be sold, bring around, bring about, bring before, broach, buck, beget, breed,

call, call for, call forth, care for, carry, carry off, carry out, catalyze, cause, chaperon, chase after, cite, claim, come, come to, companion, compass, comprise, conduct, consort with, contain, contribute to, contrive, convert, convey, convince, convoy, cost, create, cut back, cut down

decide, deliver, derive, depose, determine, dethrone, develop, diminish, discuss, disgorge, display, dispose, do, do to, draw, draw down, draw on, drive,

earn, educate, effect, effectuate, elevate, elicit, emphasize, engage, engender, enlist, entail, escort, evoke

feature, fetch, fetch and carry, find, focus on, form

gain, gather, generate, get, get to do, get together, give birth to, give rise to, go after, go for, guide, gun

haul off, heel, hold, hump

illuminate, implicate, imply, import, inaugurate, incline, induce, issue, invent, invoke

lead, lead to, lessen, lift, look after, lug, lure

make, make happen, make known, make public, manage, mention, motivate, mount up to, move

nurture

obtain, occasion, offer, oust, overthrown, overturn

pack, pen up, perform, persuade, pick up, piggyback, prevail, present, presume, presuppose, procure, produce, prompt, provoke, publish, pull off, put on, put out, put over

raise, realize, rear, recall, reduce, regurgitate, release, report, require, restore, result in, resuscitate, retrieve, return, revive, ride, run after, run into, run to,

satisfy, schlep, secure, sell, sell for, set forth, set off, set one back, shag, shepherd, shoulder, spawn, stage, start off, submit, subsume, succeed, succeed in, superinduce, sway

take, take along, take in, talk about, talk into, teach, tempt, throw up, toke, topple, total, total up to, touch on, train, transfer, translate into, transport, trigger, truck, tutor

unseat, usher

visit upon, vomit

walk, win over, work, work out, wreak

yield

I much prefer this version to the one The Animals did.

If you ever change your mind
About leavin', leavin' me behind
Oh, oh, bring it to me
Bring your sweet lovin'
Bring it on home to me, oh yeah

You know I laughed (ha ha) when you left
But now I know I've only hurt myself
Oh, oh, bring it to me
Bring your sweet lovin'
Bring it on home to me, yeah (yeah) yeah (yeah) yeah (yeah)

I'll give you jewellery, money too
And that's not all, all I'll do for you
Oh, oh, bring it to me
Bring your sweet lovin'
Bring it on home to me, yeah (yeah) yeah (yeah) yeah (yeah)
Yeah

You know I'll always be your slave
Till I'm dead and buried in my grave
Oh, oh, bring it to me
Bring your sweet lovin'
Bring it on home to me, yeah (yeah) yeah (yeah) yeah (yeah)

If you ever change your mind
About leavin', leavin' me behind
Oh, oh, bring it to me
Bring your sweet lovin'
Bring it on home to me, yeah (yeah) yeah (yeah) yeah (yeah)
Yeah (yeah) yeah (yeah)