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come a cropper
come about
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come along
come and go
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come at
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come back at
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come by
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come down on like a ton of bricks
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
v
1: be restored; "Her old vigor returned" [syn: come back, return]
2: go back to something earlier; "This harks back to a previous remark of his" [syn: hark back, return, come back, recall]
3: even the score, in sports
4: answer back [syn: retort, come back, repay, return, riposte, rejoin]
Merriam Webster's
intransitive verb Date: 18501. to return to life or vitality2. to return to memory< it's all coming back to me now >3. reply, retort< when questioned, he came back with a vehement denial >4. to regain a former favorable condition or position
Collin's Cobuild Dictionary
1. If something that you had forgotten comes back to you, you remember it. He was also an MP–I'll think of his name in a moment when it comes back to me... When I thought about it, it all came back. PHRASAL VERB: V P to n, V P 2. When something comes back, it becomes fashionable again. I'm glad hats are coming back. PHRASAL VERB: V P 3. see also comeback
Moby Thesaurus
acknowledge, answer, answer back, bounce back, come around, come back at, come home, come round, come to, come up smiling, double, double back, echo, flash back, get about, get over, get well, give acknowledgment, give answer, go back, go home, make a comeback, pull round, pull through, put back, rally, react, recover, recur, reecho, rejoin, reply, respond, retort, return, return answer, return for answer, return to mind, reverberate, revive, riposte, say, say in reply, shoot back, survive, talk back, turn back, weather the storm
