bringing about
Setting in motion
Bringing about means causing something to happen or come into existence.
The phrase emphasizes agency and effort in producing a result: The reforms were instrumental in bringing about lasting change.
It applies to outcomes both positive and negative: bringing about peace, bringing about their own downfall.
- causingMaking occur
- giving rise toProducing as a result
- occasioningCausing to happen
- generatingCreating or making
- effectResult of a cause
trigger · engendering · spark · kicking off · result · start · setting in motion · precipitating · actuating · fomenting · stirring up · provoking · calling forth · initiating · birthing · execution · transform · creating
- causationcause, effect, because, causality, causation
- incitementinciting, instigating, provoking, incitement, instigation
bringing aboutpreventing
Stopping before occurrence
stopping · blocking · averting · forestalling · thwarting
bringing aboutallowing
Granting permission to proceed
permitting · standing by · doing nothing · leaving alone · tolerating
bringing aboutundoing
Cause of destruction
destroying · eliminating · abolishing · dismantling · reversing
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