Contact and joining
Synonyms for bring
Synonyms for bring: get, take, deliver and land. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 4 synonyms for bring
Interchangeable with bring, one per sense
Audited under bring's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one bring carries in that sense.
- getverb, in the sense "go or come after and bring or take back"
- takeverb, in the sense "take something or somebody with oneself somewhere"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name bring as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
two of these come from bring's own entries in the bank, and two were audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
go or come after and bring or take back
Could you bring the wine?
bring in 2 more sentences, same sense
- Before the meeting starts, could you bring the printed reports from the file room?
- She asked her son to bring more napkins from the pantry before dinner.
How it behaves: In this sense, bring usually takes a direct object naming the item fetched and often pairs with a prepositional phrase like 'from the kitchen', appearing frequently in informal spoken requests and imperatives.
The true synonym
get
Same sentence, swapped: Could you get the wine?
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for bring in the sentence quoted.
- play
- add
- send
The opposite, in this sense
leave reverses bring as it is used in the sentence above. A different sense of bring takes different opposites, which is why these sit inside the sense and not at the top of the page.
- leave
take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
She will bring her children to the party tonight.
bring in 2 more sentences, same sense
- The waiter will bring your coffee as soon as it finishes brewing.
- Please bring your ID badge whenever you visit the office upstairs.
How it behaves: Bring typically takes a direct object naming the person or thing carried and often an indirect object or destination phrase with to, as in bring someone something or bring something to a place.
The true synonym
take
Same sentence, swapped: She will take her children to the party tonight.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where bring stands in the sentence above.
- add
- institute
- shoulder
Where bring turns up in the game
bring is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where bring is the trap
- playverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is toy, in the sense "engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously", and bring is on the board beside it.
- turnverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is release, in the sense "let (something) fall or spill from a container", with bring sitting one tile away.
Play bring
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so bring reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other contact and joining words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. bring carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.