Dictionary entry details
• BRING OUT (verb)
Meaning:
Make visible
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Synonyms:
bring out; reveal; uncover; unveil
Context examples:
Summer brings out bright clothes / He brings out the best in her / The newspaper uncovered the President's illegal dealings
Hypernyms (to "bring out" is one way to...):
show (make visible or noticeable)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bring out"):
disclose; expose (disclose to view as by removing a cover)
excavate; unearth (lay bare through digging)
trot out (bring out and show for inspection and admiration)
unfold (open to the view)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Bring out of a specific state
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
bring out; let out
Hypernyms (to "bring out" is one way to...):
let go; let go of; release; relinquish (release, as from one's grip)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
Meaning:
Prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
issue; publish; bring out; release; put out
Context example:
publish a magazine or newspaper
Hypernyms (to "bring out" is one way to...):
air; bare; publicise; publicize (make public)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bring out"):
edit (supervise the publication of)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
They won't bring out the story
Meaning:
Direct attention to, as if by means of contrast
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
set off; bring out
Context examples:
This dress accentuates your nice figure! / I set off these words by brackets
Hypernyms (to "bring out" is one way to...):
accent; accentuate; emphasise; emphasize; punctuate; stress (to stress, single out as important)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bring out"):
pick up (lift out or reflect from a background)
foreground; highlight; play up; spotlight (move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent)
raise (bring (a surface or a design) into relief and cause to project)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Bring onto the market or release
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Synonyms:
bring on; bring out; produce
Context examples:
produce a movie / bring out a book / produce a new play
Cause:
appear (come into sight or view)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bring out"):
offer (produce or introduce on the stage)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Meaning:
Encourage to be less reserved
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Context example:
The teacher tried to bring out the shy boy
Hypernyms (to "bring out" is one way to...):
encourage (inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Take out of a container or enclosed space
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
get out; bring out
Context example:
Get out your best dress--we are going to a party!
Hypernyms (to "bring out" is one way to...):
take out; unpack (remove from its packing)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bring out"):
winkle; winkle out (remove or displace from a position)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Bring before the public for the first time, as of an actor, song, etc.
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
introduce; bring out
Hypernyms (to "bring out" is one way to...):
acquaint; introduce; present (cause to come to know personally)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Meaning:
Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
disclose; divulge; let on; unwrap; reveal; let out; give away; expose; impart; discover; bring out; break
Context examples:
The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold / The actress won't reveal how old she is / bring out the truth / he broke the news to her / unwrap the evidence in the murder case
Hypernyms (to "bring out" is one way to...):
tell (let something be known)
Cause:
break; get around; get out (be released or become known; of news)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bring out"):
reveal (disclose directly or through prophets)
babble; babble out; blab; blab out; let the cat out of the bag; peach; sing; spill the beans; talk; tattle (divulge confidential information or secrets)
leak (tell anonymously)
confide (reveal in private; tell confidentially)
betray; bewray (reveal unintentionally)
spring (produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly)
come out; come out of the closet; out (to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality)
out (reveal (something) about somebody's identity or lifestyle)
blow (cause to be revealed and jeopardized)
muckrake (explore and expose misconduct and scandals concerning public figures)
blackwash (bring (information) out of concealment)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
