Definition of Bring off

1. Verb. Be successful; achieve a goal. "The pianist negociated the difficult runs"


Definition of Bring off

1. Verb. To succeed in doing something considered to be very difficult. ¹

2. Verb. (archaic) To rescue; to liberate. ¹

3. Verb. To bring away from; to bring by boat from a ship, a wreck, the shore, etc. ¹

4. Verb. (obsolete) To prove; to demonstrate; to show clearly. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bring Off

bring
bring-and-buy
bring a knife to a gunfight
bring about
bring around
bring back
bring down
bring down the house
bring forth
bring forward
bring home
bring home the bacon
bring in
bring it
bring it weak
bring off (current term)
bring on
bring one's arse to an anchor
bring oneself
bring out
bring outside
bring owls to Athens
bring round
bring someone to book
bring something to its knees
bring the lumber
bring through
bring to
bring to a boil
bring to bear

Literary usage of Bring off

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1867)
"... battery that he could not bring off his guns ; but as our infantry held its ground, they did not fall into the hands of the enemy. ..."

2. Life and Character of the Chevalier John Paul Jones: A Captain in the Navy by John Henry Sherburne (1825)
"... to do no injury of any kind, to make no search, but only to bring off what plate was given them; that in reality they did exactly as ordered, ..."

3. A Compendious View of the Late Tumults & Troubles in this Kingdom, by Way of by James Wright (1685)
"... and Mole atr<«9g«?r, to choke up the Haven, and to bring off the Ordinance, ... bring off ..."

4. Collections of the Worcester Society of Antiquity by Worcester Society of Antiquity (Mass, Worcester Society of Antiquity (Mass.) (1882)
"Voted that the Revd Mr. Mccarty have Liberty to Cut & bring off from the said School land 15 loads of wood. The above Committee is directed to see that no ..."

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