bring to book
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.04 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The perpetrators of this atrocity must be brought to book."
- "It was a little matter of unauthorized and incendiary correspondence between a person who claimed to be the ultimate authority in all matters of the Mohammedan religion throughout the world, and a younger member of a royal house who had been brought to book for kidnapping women within British territory."
- "For the most part this happens in Britain, but there can be chilling lapses in the most serious cases, as was seen in the pall thrown over Blair Peach's killing for 30 years, and in the failure to bring the Met to book over the de Menezes case, other than through health and safety laws."
- "[Indira] Jaising is openly irritated that she was brought to book after being credited with landmark human rights cases and helping to draft India's domestic violence law."
Usage
- British usage
Inflected Forms
brings to book (present, singular)
bringing to book (participle, present)
brought to book (participle, past)
brought to book (past)