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单词 bringing about
释义

bring about

verb

brought about; bringing about; brings about

transitive verb

: to cause to take place : effect

Synonyms

  • beget
  • breed
  • bring
  • bring on
  • catalyze
  • cause
  • create
  • do
  • draw on
  • effect
  • effectuate
  • engender
  • generate
  • induce
  • invoke
  • make
  • occasion
  • produce
  • prompt
  • result (in)
  • spawn
  • translate (into)
  • work
  • yield
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Example Sentences

I promise: making one mistake will not bring about the apocalypse.

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above

bringing about

verb

present participle of bring about
as in causing
to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind) I promise: making one mistake will not bring about the apocalypse

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • causing
  • creating
  • bringing
  • generating
  • bringing on
  • prompting
  • bringing forth
  • drawing on
  • doing
  • spawning
  • producing
  • working
  • giving rise to
  • translating (into)
  • resulting (in)
  • yielding
  • inducing
  • invoking
  • effecting
  • making
  • catalyzing
  • effectuating
  • breeding
  • occasioning
  • begetting
  • engendering
  • contributing (to)
  • conducing (to)
  • setting up
  • introducing
  • encouraging
  • turning out
  • promoting
  • inaugurating
  • founding
  • beginning
  • pioneering
  • launching
  • determining
  • initiating
  • establishing
  • developing
  • starting
  • deciding
  • fostering
  • instituting
  • innovating
  • forwarding
  • cultivating
  • fathering
  • rendering
  • enacting
  • furthering
  • nurturing
  • nourishing
  • setting
  • advancing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • limiting
  • restricting
  • impeding
  • reining (in)
  • controlling
  • crushing
  • checking
  • putting down
  • suppressing
  • clamping down (on)
  • stifling
  • cracking down (on)
  • repressing
  • quashing
  • subduing
  • dampening
  • smothering
  • restraining
  • squashing
  • curbing
  • quelling
  • squelching
  • inhibiting
  • retarding
  • arresting
  • killing
  • snuffing (out)
  • destroying
  • abolishing
  • stilling
  • quenching
  • canning
  • extinguishing
  • liquidating
  • demolishing
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