v. 25B6; verb
come and listen : MOVE NEARER, move closer, approach, advance, draw close/closer, draw near/nearer; proceed; archaic draw nigh.
they came last night : ARRIVE, get here/there, make it, appear, come on the scene; approach, enter, turn up, come along, materialize; informal show (up), roll in/up, blow in, show one's face.
they came to a stream : REACH, arrive at, get to, make it to, make, gain; come across, run across, happen on, chance on, come upon, stumble on; end up at; informal wind up at.
the dress comes to her ankles : EXTEND, stretch, reach, come as far as.
she comes from Belgium : BE FROM, be a native of, hail from, originate in; live in, reside in.
attacks came without warning : HAPPEN, occur, take place, come about, transpire, fall, present itself, crop up, materialize, arise, arrive, appear; ensue, follow; poetic/literary come to pass, befall.
the car does not come in red : BE AVAILABLE, be for sale; be made, be produced.
(informal) CLIMAX, orgasm.
go, leave.
25A0; come about HAPPEN, occur, take place, transpire, fall; crop up, materialize, arise, arrive, appear, surface; ensue, follow; poetic/literary come to pass, befall.
25A0; come across
they came across his friends : MEET/FIND BY CHANCE, meet, run into, run across, come upon, chance on, stumble on, happen on; discover, encounter, find, locate; informal bump into.
the emotion comes across : BE COMMUNICATED, be perceived, get across, be clear, be understood, register, sink in, strike home.
she came across as cool : SEEM, appear, look, sound, look to be; Brit. come over; N. Amer. come off.
(informal) she had come across with more information : HAND OVER, give, deliver, produce, part with; informal come up with, cough up; N. Amer. informal ante up.
25A0; come along
the puppies are coming along nicely : PROGRESS, develop, shape up; come on, turn out; improve, get better, pick up, rally, recover.
Come along! : HURRY (UP), be quick, get a move on, come along, look lively, speed up, move faster; informal get moving, get cracking, step on it, move it, buck up, shake a leg, make it snappy; Brit. informal get your skates on; N. Amer. informal get a wiggle on; dated make haste.
25A0; come apart BREAK UP, fall to bits, fall to pieces, disintegrate, come unstuck, separate, split, tear.
25A0; come back RETURN, get back, arrive home, come home; come again.
25A0; come between ALIENATE, estrange, separate, divide, split up, break up, disunite, set at odds.
25A0; come by OBTAIN, acquire, gain, get, find, pick up, procure, secure; buy, purchase; informal get one's hands on, get hold of, bag, score, swing.
25A0; come down DECIDE, conclude, settle; choose, opt, plump.
25A0; come down on . See reprimand verb .
25A0; come down to AMOUNT TO, add up to, constitute, boil down to, be equivalent to.
25A0; come down with FALL ILL WITH, fall sick with, be taken ill with, show symptoms of, become infected with, get, catch, develop, contract, fall victim to; Brit. go down with.
25A0; come forward VOLUNTEER, offer one's services, make oneself available.
25A0; come in ENTER, gain admission, cross the threshold.
25A0; come into INHERIT, be left, be willed, be bequeathed.
25A0; come in for RECEIVE, experience, sustain, undergo, go through, encounter, face, be subjected to, bear, suffer.
25A0; come off
this soufflé rarely comes off : SUCCEED, work, turn out well, work out, go as planned, produce the desired result, get results.
she always came off worse : END UP, finish up.
25A0; come on PROGRESS, develop, shape up, take shape, come along, turn out; improve.
25A0; come out
it came out that he'd been to Rome : BECOME KNOWN, become apparent, come to light, emerge, transpire; get out, be discovered, be uncovered, be revealed, leak out, be disclosed.
my book is coming out : BE PUBLISHED, be issued, be released, be brought out, be printed, go on sale.
the flowers have come out : BLOOM, flower, open.
it will come out all right : END, finish, conclude, work out, turn out; informal pan out.
the MP came out voluntarily : declare that one is homosexual, come out of the closet.
(Brit. dated) she came out in 1929 : ENTER SOCIETY, make one's debut in society.
25A0; come out with UTTER, say, let out, blurt out, burst out with.
25A0; come round
he has just come round from anaesthetic : REGAIN CONSCIOUSNESS, come to, come to one's senses, recover, revive, awake, wake up.
I came round to her view : BE CONVERTED, be won over (by), agree (with), change one's mind, be persuaded (by); give way, yield, relent.
Friday the 13th comes round every few months : OCCUR, take place, happen, come up, crop up, arise; recur, reoccur, return, reappear.
come round for a drink : VISIT, call (in/round), look in, stop by, drop by/in/round/over, come over; informal pop in/round/over.
25A0; come through SURVIVE, get through, ride out, weather, live through, pull through; withstand, stand up to, endure, surmount, overcome; informal stick out.
25A0; come to
the bill came to £17.50 : AMOUNT TO, add up to, run to, total, equal; Brit. tot up to.
I came to in the hospital : REGAIN CONSCIOUSNESS, come round, come to one's senses, recover, revive, awake, wake up.
25A0; come up ARISE, occur, happen, come about, transpire, emerge, surface, crop up, turn up, pop up.
25A0; come up to
she came up to his shoulder : REACH, come to, be as tall as, extend to.
he never came up to her expectations : MEASURE UP TO, match up to, live up to, fulfil, satisfy, meet, equal, compare with; be good enough; informal hold a candle to.
25A0; come up with PRODUCE, devise, think up; propose, put forward, submit, suggest, recommend, advocate, introduce, moot.