bring sb around
UK also bring sb round— phrasal verb with bring uk/brɪŋ/us/brɪŋ/verb [ T ] brought, brought
(MAKE CONSCIOUS)
to make someone become conscious again after being unconscious:
I gave him a sniff of smelling salts to bring him around.
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Medical treatment: treating & caring for people
- attention
- bedside manner
- bring
- care
- clinic
- domiciliary
- eye
- first-line treatment
- keep your/an eye on sth/sb idiom
- mind
- minister
- minister to sb
- modality
- nurse
- patch sb/sth up
- referral
- section
- set sb up
- soothe
- tend
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(PERSUADE)
to persuade someone to have the same opinion as you have:
At first they refused but I managed to bring them around (to my way of thinking).
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Urging & persuading
- argumentation
- blag
- brainwash
- bring
- browbeat
- butter
- get sth out of sb
- incite
- persuasion
- preach
- press-gang
- prevail on/upon sb
- proselytize
- rush sb into (doing) sth
- sucker sb into sth
- swing
- talk sb down
- talk sb out of sth
- twist
- work on sb
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