bring back

verb

brought back; bringing back; brings back

1

: to come back with (something or someone)

What did you bring back (with you) from your vacation?

Bring your roommate back with you when you come home for the holidays.

You promised to bring me back a present.

2

: to cause (something or someone) to return or be returned

The death penalty was done away with in this area many years ago, but some people now want it to be brought back.

The movie is a fantasy about a man who is brought back (to life) from the dead.

The company is doing poorly, and its former president is being brought back to help solve its problems.

3

: to cause (something or someone) to return to a condition, subject, etc.

That question brings us back (again) to the fundamental problem of world peace.

We gradually brought the conversation back to the subject of his unpaid bills.

4

: to cause (something) to return to someone's memory

Seeing her again brought back a lot of happy memories.

I had almost forgotten about the time we spent together, but seeing her again brought it all back (to me).

Examples of bring back in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

To clamp down on future legal costs, the department last year brought back a former senior official, Arif Alikhan — at a monthly salary of $20,000, paid for by a private donation — to study how to reduce the number of costly lawsuits. — Sean Greene, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026

The screening brings back a stand-alone festival closing, which SGIFF last staged in 2014. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026

To bring back the house, McCollum relied on tips from a fellow preservationist, James Biddle, a former Americana curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art who had become president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 9 Oct. 2026

With so many options and changing demographic patterns, schools now have to work not only to keep families but also to find new students and bring back the ones who left. — Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026

Rhymes for bring back

• aback
• attack
• backpack
• backtrack
• bareback
• blackjack
• brownback
• buyback
• callback
• cognac
• comeback
• cutback