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come hither lookcome home
come in
come in for
come in handy
come into
come into being
come into one's own
come near
come of
come of age
come off
come off it
come on
come on to
come out in
come out of the closet
come out with
come over
come round
come short
come through
come to
come to a grinding halt
come to a head
come to grief
come to grips
come to grips with
come to hand
come to life
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
v
1: appear or become visible; make a showing; "She turned up at the funeral"; "I hope the list key is going to surface again" [syn: come on, come out, turn up, surface, show up]
2: be issued or published; "Did your latest book appear yet?"; "The new Woody Allen film hasn't come out yet" [syn: appear, come out]
3: come out of; "Water issued from the hole in the wall"; "The words seemed to come out by themselves" [syn: issue, emerge, come out, come forth, go forth, egress]
4: result or end; "How will the game turn out?" [syn: turn out, come out]
5: come off; "His hair and teeth fell out" [syn: come out, fall out]
6: take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal; "Jerry came in third in the Marathon" [syn: place, come in, come out]
7: make oneself visible; take action; "Young people should step to the fore and help their peers" [syn: come to the fore, step forward, come forward, step up, step to the fore, come out]
8: bulge outward; "His eyes popped" [syn: start, protrude, pop, pop out, bulge, bulge out, bug out, come out]
9: to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality; "This actor outed last year" [syn: come out of the closet, out, come out]
10: be made known; be disclosed or revealed; "The truth will out" [syn: out, come out]
11: break out; "The tooth erupted and had to be extracted" [syn: erupt, come out, break through, push through]
Merriam Webster's
intransitive verb Date: 13th century1. a. to come into public view; make a public appearance< a new magazine has come out >b. to become evident < his pride came out in his refusal to accept help >2. to declare oneself especially in public utterance < came out in favor of the proposal >3. to turn out in an outcome ; end up < everything came out all right >4. to make a debut5. a. to openly declare one's homosexualityb. to openly declare something about oneself previously kept hidden — often used with as< blew his cover and came out as a CIA agent — William Prochnau > • coming-out noun or adjective
Collin's Cobuild Dictionary
1. When a new product such as a book or CD comes out, it becomes available to the public. The book comes out this week... PHRASAL VERB: V P 2. If a fact comes out, it becomes known to people. The truth is beginning to come out about what happened... It will come out that she has covertly donated considerable sums to the IRA. PHRASAL VERB: V P, it V P that 3. When a gay person comes out, they let people know that they are gay. ...the few gay men there who dare to come out... I came out as a lesbian when I was still in my teens. PHRASAL VERB: V P, V P as n/adj 4. To come out in a particular way means to be in the position or state described at the end of a process or event. In this grim little episode of recent American history, few people come out well... So what makes a good marriage? Faithfulness comes out top of the list... Julian ought to have resigned, then he'd have come out of it with some credit. PHRASAL VERB: V P adv/prep, V P adj, V P of n adv/prep 5. If you come out for something, you declare that you support it. If you come out against something, you declare that you do not support it. Its members had come out virtually unanimously against the tests. PHRASAL VERB: V P prep/adv 6. When a group of workers comes out on strike, they go on strike. (BRIT; in AM, use go out on strike) On September 18 the dockers again came out on strike. PHRASAL VERB: V P prep 7. If a photograph does not come out, it does not appear or is unclear when it is developed and printed. None of her snaps came out. PHRASAL VERB: V P 8. When the sun, moon, or stars come out, they appear in the sky. Oh, look. The sun's come out. ? go in PHRASAL VERB: V P
Moby Thesaurus
act, act as foil, appear, appear in print, arise, attend, bail out, barnstorm, be born, be found, be revealed, be so, be such, become, become known, become manifest, become of, become public, become visible, betray itself, break, break cover, break forth, break out, break through, burst forth, buzz about, circulate, come, come about, come along, come forth, come forward, come in sight, come of, come on, come through, come to be, come to hand, come to light, contrive, crop out, crop up, debouch, debut, develop, discover itself, disembogue, effuse, emanate, embark in, embark on, embark upon, emerge, emote, emotionalize, end, ensue, enter, enter on, enter upon, erupt, eventuate, exit, extrude, fade in, fall out, fare, find vent, fly about, follow, get about, get abroad, get afloat, get along, get around, get by, get exposure, get on, get out, get to be, get top billing, go about, go along, go forth, go into, go on, go the rounds, go to press, hang out, have currency, have origin, heave in sight, irrupt, issue, issue forth, jump out, leak, leak out, look forth, loom, make out, manage, manifest itself, materialize, mime, ooze out, originate, out, outcrop, pan out, pantomime, patter, peep out, perform, play, play the lead, playact, protrude, prove, prove to be, rear its head, register, result, rise, run out, sally, sally forth, see the light, shape up, show, show its colors, show its face, show up, sketch, spread, spread about, spread like wildfire, spring up, stack up, stand revealed, star, steal the show, stooge, stream forth, strike the eye, surface, take birth, take rise, take up, terminate, transpire, tread the boards, troupe, turn out, turn up, unfold, upstage, work out
