Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To cause to take place. 2 (context transitive English) To accomplish, achieve.
WordNet
v. produce; "The scientists set up a shockwave" [syn: effect, effectuate, set up]
make possible; "The grant made our research possible"
bring about; "His two singles gave the team the victory" [syn: give, yield]
cause to occur or exist; "This procedure produces a curious effect"; "The new law gave rise to many complaints"; "These chemicals produce a noxious vapor" [syn: produce, give rise]
plan, organize, and carry out (an event) [syn: stage, arrange]
Usage examples of "bring about".
He's wise enough to know that Sauron's evil power can't be used to bring about good.
In which case they must inevitably bring about all possible desirable configurations of matter.
Harmony and unity are the very fundamental laws of the human mind itself, and, in a sense, all mental activity is the endeavour to bring about a state of harmony and unity in the mind.
It had been given to him, he explained, in romantic circumstances, and was morally certain to bring about a century on any wicket.
But manifold causes bring about abandonment of our resolution, yet a trivial omission of holy exercises can hardly be made without some loss to us.
Only true belief could bring about the Final Jihad and the destruction of the Dar Al Harb.
Within an hour of this event, which revealed to me how great was the power of Montezuma, seeing that the sight of a ring from his finger could bring about the instant death of a high priest at the hands of his disciples, we started on our long journey.
In truth (for we scorn to deceive our reader, or to vindicate the character of our heroine by ascribing her actions to supernatural impulse) the thoughts of her beloved Jones, and some hopes (however distant) in which he was very particularly concerned, immediately destroyed all which filial love, piety, and pride had, with their joint endeavours, been labouring to bring about.
Well, she went on to say, that what remained now to be done, was to bring about a marriage between them.
While on another level, nuking might easily bring about a hatred of the Empire that would make the conversion and rule of this sector very difficult.
To date, at least during recorded history, they have been employed only on trade worlds and resource worlds, where the multiplicity of national states and the frequency of foreign rule and Confederation trade prerogatives bring about wars and revolts.
You have now undone all that I have been spending my breath in order to bring about.
If you shoot this man, if you kill him then you will bring about awful things which you cannot now even comprehend.
They still thought he could bring about some change, and all he had left were promises he wasn’.
A Federal Securities Act reformed the regulation of stock offering and trading--an effort to avert the kind of wild speculation that helped bring about the crash of 1929.