come to
verbDefinitions
To recover consciousness after fainting etc.
- She came to with the aid of smelling salts.
To stop a sailing vessel, especially by turning into the wind. See also come about.
- The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide.
To total
To total; to amount to.
- so how much does that come to?; the bill comes to £10 each
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To reach
To reach; to arrive at.
- come to an end; come to a conclusion; come to an agreement; come to a halt
- I don't know what the world is coming to! Everything seems so crazy these days.
To seek help from.
- You can always come to me when you're feeling sad.
To devote attention to in due course
To devote attention to in due course; to come around to.
- I'll come to your question in a minute.
To befall
To befall; to happen to; to come upon.
- I pray no harm will come to you.
To regard or specifically pertain to.
- He's the best when it comes to detective fiction.
- When it comes to remorseless criminals, this guy takes the cake.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, to.
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Derived
come back to one's senses, come to a boil, come to a close, come to a head, come to an end, come to a sticky end, come to blows, come to grief, come to grips, come to grips with, come to hand, come to Jesus, come to life, come to light, come to mention it, come to mind, come to naught, come to nothing, come to nought, come to oneself, come to one's hand, come to one's senses, come to order, come to papa, come to pass, come to power, come to someone's aid, come to someone's assistance, come to someone's rescue, come to terms, come to terms with, come to that, come to the fore, come to the party, come to think of it, come to time, Daniel come to judgement, when it comes to, when push comes to shove, worst comes to worst
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for come to. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA