"bring off" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: brings off [present, singular, third-person], bringing off [participle, present], brought off [participle, past], brought off [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|bring<,,brought> off}} bring off (third-person singular simple present brings off, present participle bringing off, simple past and past participle brought off)
  1. To succeed in doing something considered to be very difficult.
    Sense id: en-bring_off-en-verb-WxuDutPo
  2. To bring to orgasm.
    Sense id: en-bring_off-en-verb-7Mc6KQDw
  3. (archaic) To rescue; to liberate. Tags: archaic
    Sense id: en-bring_off-en-verb-tbzZfefp
  4. To bring away from; to bring by boat from a ship, a wreck, the shore, etc.
    Sense id: en-bring_off-en-verb-ueXUk32p Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs formed with "off", Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 7 9 72 3 5 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "off": 7 9 9 61 6 8 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 4 8 8 67 4 9 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 4 6 6 75 4 5
  5. (transitive, slang) To steal. Tags: slang, transitive
    Sense id: en-bring_off-en-verb-V6eOpCNB
  6. (obsolete) To prove; to demonstrate; to show clearly. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-bring_off-en-verb-Q08LEom9

Inflected forms

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        "To succeed in doing something considered to be very difficult."
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        {
          "ref": "1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XIV, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC:",
          "text": "And when I'd come and really finished, then she'd start on her own account, and I had to stop inside her till she brought herself off, wriggling and shouting, she'd clutch clutch with herself down there, an' then she'd come off, fair in ecstasy",
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        {
          "ref": "2002, William P. Case, South Caicos Tailwind:",
          "text": "She brought him off with her mouth, while gently tickling his balls, and got herself off with her fingers while she did him.",
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        "To bring to orgasm."
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          "text": "I'll be ta'en too, Or bring him off.",
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        "(archaic) To rescue; to liberate."
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        "To steal."
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        "(transitive, slang) To steal."
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        "To prove; to demonstrate; to show clearly."
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        "(obsolete) To prove; to demonstrate; to show clearly."
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        "To rescue; to liberate."
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        "(archaic) To rescue; to liberate."
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        "To steal."
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        "(obsolete) To prove; to demonstrate; to show clearly."
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