COME TO DEFINITIONS - 6 definitions found
come to v 1: cause to experience suddenly; "Panic struck me"; "An interesting idea hit her"; "A thought came to me"; "The thought struck terror in our minds"; "They were struck with fear" [syn: hit, strike, come to] 2: be relevant to; "There were lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments" [syn: refer, pertain, relate, concern, come to, bear on, touch, touch on, have-to doe with] 3: attain; "The horse finally struck a pace" [syn: come to, strike] 4: return to consciousness; "The patient came to quickly"; "She revived after the doctor gave her an injection" [syn: come to}, revive, resuscitate] come to v. (stress on "to") 1. To wake up after losing consciousness; get the use of your senses back again after fainting or being knocked out. She fainted in the store and found herself in the first aid room when she came to. The boxer who was knocked out did not come to for five minutes. The doctor gave her a pill and after she took it she didn't come to for two days. Compare: BRING TO. 2. (stress on "come") To get enough familiarity or understanding to; learn to; grow to. - Used with an infinitive. John was selfish at first, but he came to realize that other people counted, too. During her years at the school, Mary came to know that road well. 3. To result in or change to; reach the point of; arrive at. Mr. Smith lived to see his invention come to success. Grandfather doesn't like the way young people act today; he says, "I don't know what the world is coming to." 4. To have something to do with; be in the field of; be about. - Usually used in the phrase "when it comes to". Joe is not good in sports, but when it comes to arithmetic he's the best in the class. The school has very good teachers, but when it comes to buildings, the school is poor. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) come to I. phrasal to be a question of <when it comes to pitching horseshoes, he's the champ> II. intransitive verb Date: circa 1572 1. to recover consciousness 2. a. to bring a ship's head nearer the wind ; luff b. to come to anchor or to a stop Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary come to When someone who is unconscious comes to, they recover consciousness. When he came to and raised his head he saw Barney. = come around PHRASAL VERB: V P Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms come to 1. Consent or yield to. 2. Amount to. 3. Recover (as from fainting), return to consciousness. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 140 Moby Thesaurus words for "come to": accomplish, achieve, acquiesce, add up to, afford, aggregate, aggregate to, amount to, appear, approach, arrive, arrive at, arrive in, assister, attain, attain to, attend, awake, awaken, balance, be at, be begotten, be born, be incarnated, be persuaded, be present at, be received, blow in, bob up, bounce back, break even, bring, bring in, carry to, catch, check in, clock in, come, come alive, come around, come back, come in, come into being, come into existence, come over, come round, come to hand, come to life, come up smiling, come up to, comply, comply with, comprise, contain, correspond, cost, ditto, do, draw, equal, even, even off, extend to, fall in with, fetch, fetch up at, find, gain, get about, get in, get over, get there, get to, get well, go to, hit, hit town, keep pace with, knot, lead to, live again, look on, make, make a comeback, make it, match, match up with, measure up to, mount up to, number, parallel, pop up, pull in, pull round, pull through, punch in, quicken, rally, reach, reach to, reanimate, reckon up to, recover, resurge, resuscitate, return to life, revive, ring in, rise again, rival, roll in, run abreast, run into, run to, see, see the light, sell for, set one back, show up, sign in, sit in, stack up with, stretch away to, stretch to, submit, survive, take in, tie, time in, tot up to, total, total up to, tote up to, touch, turn up, unitize, visit, watch, weather the storm, witness |
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