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Verb
bring off (third-person singular simple present brings off, present participle bringing off, simple past and past participle brought off)
- To succeed in doing something considered to be very difficult.
I don't know how, but he managed to bring off the Acme Foods deal.
- To bring to orgasm.
1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XIV, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, authorized British edition, London: Martin Secker , published February 1932 (May 1932 printing), →OCLC: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
2002, William P. Case, South Caicos Tailwind:She brought him off with her mouth, while gently tickling his balls, and got herself off with her fingers while she did him.
- (archaic) To rescue; to liberate.
c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene vi], line 25:I'll be ta'en too, Or bring him off.
- To bring away from; to bring by boat from a ship, a wreck, the shore, etc.
- (obsolete) To prove; to demonstrate; to show clearly.
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