Synonyms of bring about

bring about

verb

as in to cause

to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)

I promise: making one mistake will not bring about the apocalypse

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cause
• create
• bring
• generate
• prompt
• do
• produce
• work
• bring on
• result (in)
• bring forth
• spawn
• draw on
• yield
• induce
• effect
• invoke
• give rise to
• make
• translate (into)
• effectuate
• contribute (to)
• found
• catalyze
• occasion
• beget
• encourage
• introduce
• promote
• breed
• engender
• set up
• conduce (to)
• determine
• pioneer
• establish
• begin
• initiate
• launch
• decide
• inaugurate
• turn out
• develop
• forward
• start
• institute
• foster
• further
• cultivate
• render
• enact
• set
• innovate
• advance
• father
• nurture
• nourish

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• limit
• restrict
• put down
• impede
• suppress
• quash
• check
• subdue
• control
• repress
• rein (in)
• stifle
• quell
• dampen
• crush
• crack down (on)
• restrain
• curb
• smother
• inhibit
• arrest
• retard
• clamp down (on)
• kill
• can
• squelch
• destroy
• squash
• still
• abolish
• liquidate
• extinguish
• quench
• demolish
• snuff (out)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of bring about

Since then, the tax collector’s office has brought about 900 properties into compliance, leaving the roughly 700 remaining. —Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2026

Good Samaritan was brought about during the Jim Crow era where segregation laws were being enforced. —Charlotte Observer, 29 May 2026

After her death, the cult’s survivors say Alamo forced his followers to pray over her body to bring about her resurrection, which the Brodericks’ mother gladly did. —Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 28 May 2026

This brought about the rise of the ball-playing centre-back. —Jon MacKenzie, New York Times, 27 May 2026