bring-down
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "bring-down", 10-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "bring-down" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "bring-down" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
bring down is aEnglishverb. It means: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bring, down.
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Browse all word comparisons →| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bring down |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The English entry for bring down is 10 letters long, classified as averb. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for bring down in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable English patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is bring down, spelled B-R-I-N-G- -D-O-W-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bring, down.
- 2To make (a ruler or government) lose their position of power.
- 3To reduce.
- 4To humble.
- 5To make (something, especially something flying) fall to the ground, usually by firing a weapon of some kind.
- 6To cause (an opponent) to fall after a tackle.
- 7To make (someone) feel bad emotionally.
- 8To cause to fall down, e.g. in an accident.
- 9To take (someone) to prison.
- 10To receive a prison sentence.
- 11To incite excitement in (a place or crowd).
- 12To calm down (someone).
- 13To stop the effects of intoxication in (someone).
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