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bring off

vb. 1 To succeed in doing something considered to be very difficult. 2 (context archaic English) To rescue; to liberate. 3 To bring away from; to bring by boat from a ship, a wreck, the shore, etc. 4 (context obsolete English) To prove; to demonstrate; to show clearly.

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bring off

v. be successful; achieve a goal; "She succeeded in persuading us all"; "I managed to carry the box upstairs"; "She pulled it off, even though we never thought her capable of it"; "The pianist negociated the difficult runs" [syn: pull off, negociate, carry off, manage] [ant: fail]

Usage examples of "bring off".

There's no way they could bring off the sort of things the mercs done.

The result was that we lost three precious days in getting canoes to bring off your men and your gear.

Harry rather doubted he would be able to bring off this particular spell.

If there was a way to bring off Horrible Hemphill's gambit, Honor would find it, however much it galled her soul to do it.

And he left us both alive and able to suffer the consequences of the deed we attempted, but didn't quite bring off.

If they did not have to make a run for it, they might be able to bring off their equipment too.

Before he can bring off his plans for building a black, empire with himself at its head, Conan is thwarted by a succession of natural catastrophes and the intrigues of his enemies among the Bamulas, many of whom resent the rise to power in their tribe of a foreigner, forced to flee, he heads north through the equatorial jungle and across the grassy veldt toward the semicivilized kingdom of Kush.

A couple of clarification requests, and their replies, could buy enough time to bring off all sorts of events.

Harry had not yet managed to bring off the Re-filling Charm without saying the incantation aloud, but the idea that he might not be able to do it tonight was laughable: Indeed, Harry grinned to himself as, unnoticed by either Hagrid or Slug-liorn (now swapping tales of the illegal trade in dragon eggs) he pointed his wand under the table at the emptying bottles and they immediately began to refill.

Anytime you have to bring off a miracle to get out in one piece, you're working too hard.

In spite of Azza's distrust, Laury still had one more master performance of telepathic skill to bring off.

It was an experiment that he, least of all men, had the adroitness to bring off.