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)
