"bring to life" meaning in English

See bring to life in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: brings to life [present, singular, third-person], bringing to life [participle, present], brought to life [participle, past], brought to life [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|bring<,,brought> to life}} bring to life (third-person singular simple present brings to life, present participle bringing to life, simple past and past participle brought to life)
  1. To cause to regain consciousness, or return as if from death. Synonyms: resuscitate, resurrect
    Sense id: en-bring_to_life-en-verb-W7YdDilM Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 70 10 20
  2. To make active, lively, or interesting. Synonyms: liven, invigorate
    Sense id: en-bring_to_life-en-verb-5c1UTXPp
  3. (of a fictional character or inanimate object) To cause to be alive or real.
    Sense id: en-bring_to_life-en-verb-fnuHFocd

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for bring to life meaning in English (1.9kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "brings to life",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bringing to life",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brought to life",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brought to life",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bring<,,brought> to life"
      },
      "expansion": "bring to life (third-person singular simple present brings to life, present participle bringing to life, simple past and past participle brought to life)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "70 10 20",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause to regain consciousness, or return as if from death."
      ],
      "id": "en-bring_to_life-en-verb-W7YdDilM",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "resuscitate"
        },
        {
          "word": "resurrect"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 January 12, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 948, page 70",
          "text": "\"Reet. Wot fort do? I'm off wom.\". No, we're not speaking a foreign language, although the bulk of readers could be forgiven for thinking so. Rather, for those in the know, it is of course a typical example of 'Wiganese' dialect, which has been brought to life by an Avanti West Coast-funded mural in the underpass of Wigan North Western station.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make active, lively, or interesting."
      ],
      "id": "en-bring_to_life-en-verb-5c1UTXPp",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "liven"
        },
        {
          "word": "invigorate"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To cause to be alive or real."
      ],
      "id": "en-bring_to_life-en-verb-fnuHFocd",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of a fictional character or inanimate object) To cause to be alive or real."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a fictional character or inanimate object"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bring to life"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "brings to life",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bringing to life",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brought to life",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brought to life",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bring<,,brought> to life"
      },
      "expansion": "bring to life (third-person singular simple present brings to life, present participle bringing to life, simple past and past participle brought to life)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To cause to regain consciousness, or return as if from death."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "resuscitate"
        },
        {
          "word": "resurrect"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 January 12, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 948, page 70",
          "text": "\"Reet. Wot fort do? I'm off wom.\". No, we're not speaking a foreign language, although the bulk of readers could be forgiven for thinking so. Rather, for those in the know, it is of course a typical example of 'Wiganese' dialect, which has been brought to life by an Avanti West Coast-funded mural in the underpass of Wigan North Western station.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make active, lively, or interesting."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "liven"
        },
        {
          "word": "invigorate"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To cause to be alive or real."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of a fictional character or inanimate object) To cause to be alive or real."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a fictional character or inanimate object"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bring to life"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.