bring on
verb- To cause. · Excessive drinking can bring on depression.· Does stress bring the headaches on?
- To make something appear, as on a stage or a place of competition.
- To pose a challenge or threat; to attack; to compete aggressively.
- To hire or initiate a new employee or participant in a project. · I'll bring them on at the end of the month.
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“No, for that very resemblance affrights me; I should have liked something more in the manner of the Venus of Milo or Capua; but this chase-loving Diana, continually surrounded by her nymphs, gives me a sort of alarm lest she should some day bring on me the fate of Actæon.”
“Not more than five or six hundred thousand francs,” said Lord Wilmore; “he is a miser.” Hatred evidently inspired the Englishman, who, knowing no other reproach to bring on the count, accused him of avarice.
That deposit may be at any moment withdrawn, and if I had employed it for another purpose, I should bring on me a disgraceful bankruptcy.
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