bring about

Main Entry:
bring about
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: cause success
Synonyms: accomplish, achieve, beget, bring to pass, compass, create, do, draw on, effect, effectuate, engender, generate, give rise to, make happen, manage, occasion, produce, realize, secure, succeed
Antonyms: halt, kill, stop
Main Entry: achieve
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: bring to successful conclusion; reach a goal
Synonyms: accomplish, acquire, actualize, attain, bring about, bring off, bring to pass, cap, carry out, carry through, close, complete, conclude, consummate, deliver, discharge, dispatch, do, earn, earn wings, effect, effectuate, enact, end, execute, finish, follow through, fulfill, gain, get, get done, manage, negotiate, obtain, perfect, perform, procure, produce, rack up, reach, realize, resolve, score, seal, see through, settle, sign, solve, win, wind up, work out
Notes: achieve means 'to bring to a successful conclusion' (literally French 'to bring to a head') and accomplish means 'to perform fully'; the completion of achievement is more comprehensive
Antonyms: fail, lose, miss
Main Entry: actualize
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make real
Synonyms: accomplish, bring about, engineer, produce, realize
Main Entry: beget
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: create, bear
Synonyms: afford, breed, bring, bring about, cause, effect, engender, father, generate, get, give rise to, multiply, occasion, procreate, produce, progenerate, propagate, reproduce, result in, sire
Main Entry: begin
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: start
Synonyms: activate, actualize, break ground, break the ice, bring about, bring to pass, cause, commence, create, do, drive, effect, embark on, enter on, enter upon, establish, eventuate, found, generate, get going, give birth to, give impulse, go ahead, go into, impel, inaugurate, induce, initiate, instigate, institute, introduce, launch, lay foundation for, lead, make, make active, motivate, mount, occasion, open, originate, plunge into, prepare, produce, set about, set in motion, set up, trigger, undertake
Antonyms: complete, conclude, consummate, end, finish
Main Entry: breed
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: generate, bring into being
Synonyms: bear, beget, bring about, bring forth, cause, create, deliver, engender, give birth to, give rise to, hatch, impregnate, induce, make, multiply, originate, procreate, produce, progenerate, propagate, reproduce
Antonyms: not produce
Main Entry: build
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: construct structure
Synonyms: assemble, bring about, carpenter, cast, compile, compose, contrive, engineer, erect, evolve, fabricate, fashion, fit together, forge, form, frame, jerry-build, knock together, make, manufacture, model, prefabricate, produce, put together, put up, raise, rear, reconstruct, sculpture, set up, superstruct, synthesize, throw together, throw up
Notes: billed is having a beak or having been presented a statement of costs or charges, while build is to construct
Antonyms: demolish, destroy, dismantle, knock down, raze, ruin, take down
Main Entry: compass
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: achieve, get
Synonyms: accomplish, annex, attain, bring about, effect, execute, fulfill, gain, have, land, obtain, perform, procure, realize, secure, win
Antonyms: fail, lose
Main Entry: conclude
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: settle, resolve
Synonyms: accomplish, achieve, bring about, carry out, clinch, confirm, decide, determine, effect, establish, fix, pull off, rule, work out
Antonyms: unsettle
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