Phrasal Verbs With 'Come'

Come about phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Happen, occur
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: The meeting CAME ABOUT because both sides were sick of fighting.
  2. Meaning: Shift direction (nautical)
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: The yacht CAME ABOUT to a heading of 240 degrees.

Come across phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Find by accident
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: I CAME ACROSS my old school reports when I was clearing out my desk.
  2. Meaning: Agree to have sex with someone
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: I was surprised when she CAME ACROSS on the first night.
  3. Meaning: The way other people see you
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: He CAME ACROSS as shy because he spoke so quietly.

Come along phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Accompany
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: May I COME ALONG on your trip tomorrow?
  2. Meaning: Move faster or keep up
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: COME ALONG, we’ll never get there if you don’t keep up with us.

Come apart phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Break into pieces
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: It CAME APART when I tried to lift it off the floor and I had to glue it back together.

Come around phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Recover consciousness
    ( | International English)
    » Example: It took several hours after the operation before he CAME AROUND.

Come around to phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Agree with or accept something you had previously disapproved of or disliked.
    ( | International English)
    » Example: They have started COMING AROUND TO our way of thinking and are less hostile.

Come back phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Return
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: I left work and CAME BACK home early.

Come before phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Appear in court charged with a crime or offence
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: He CAME BEFORE the court on charges of speeding.

Come by phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Visit
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: I'll COME BY after work and see if you need any help.
  2. Meaning: Acquire
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: How did you COME BY that Rolex?

Come down phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Rain
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: Just look at the rain COMING DOWN! I'm not going out in that.
  2. Meaning: Travel
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: When you're next in London, COME DOWN and see us.

Come down on phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Criticise heavily
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: The management really CAME DOWN ON him for losing the contract.

Come down to phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Amount to, be the most important aspect
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: It all COMES DOWN TO a question of who tries hardest.

Come down upon phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Criticise, reprimand severely
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: They will COME DOWN UPON us if we are late.

Come down with phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Fall ill
    (Inseparable | American English)
    » Example: She CAME DOWN WITH a virus.

Come forth phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Appear
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: The draft proposal CAME FORTH in April.

Come forth with phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Provide information
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: None of the witnesses CAME FORTH WITH an accurate description of the gang.

Come from phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Country or town where you were born
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: She COMES FROM Somalia.

Come in phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Arrive for flights
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: The plane CAME IN at two-thirty in the morning.
  2. Meaning: Place or ranking in a competition, etc.
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: I did my best but CAME IN last but one in the race.
  3. Meaning: Receive news
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: Reports are just COMING IN of an assassination attempt on the President.

Come in for phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Receive (criticism or praise)
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: Jack\'s COME IN FOR quite a lot of criticism of late.

Come into phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Be important or relevant
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: Money doesn't COME INTO it; I simply will not do it under any circumstances.
  2. Meaning: Inherit
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: She CAME INTO a lot of money when her grandmother died.

Come into use phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Start being used
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: The computerised system CAME INTO USE at the end of last year.

Come off phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: When something breaks off
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: I picked it up and the handle CAME OFF in my hand.
  2. Meaning: Be successful
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: I was surprised when the plan CAME OFF so easily.

Come off it phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: I don't believe what you're saying; used as an imperative
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: COME OFF IT; tell me the truth for goodness' sake.

Come on phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Encouragement
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: COME ON; don't give up now when you're so close to finishing.
  2. Meaning: Start an illness
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: I've got a bit of a headache. I hope it doesn't mean I've got flu COMING ON.
  3. Meaning: Start functioning (machines, etc)
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: The central heating COMES ON automatically an hour before I have to get up.

Come out phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: A secret is revealed
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: The details of the scandal CAME OUT in the press and she had to resign.
  2. Meaning: Be published or otherwise available to the public
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: The band's new CD is COMING OUT in September.
  3. Meaning: Disappear when washed
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: The red wine I spilt just will not COME OUT of the carpet no matter what I try to clean it with.
  4. Meaning: Let people know that you are lesbian or gay
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: She CAME OUT at university and has been living with her partner, Jane, for the last couple of years.
  5. Meaning: When the sun appears
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: It started cloudy, but then the sun CAME OUT and we all went to the park.

Come out in phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Have a rash or similar skin problem
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: She CAME OUT IN a nasty rash after touching the poisonous plant by mistake.

Come out of phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Recover consciousness
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: After three years, he CAME OUT OF the coma.

Come out with phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Make something available
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: They have just COME OUT WITH a new version.
  2. Meaning: Say something publicly and unexpectedly
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: She CAME OUT WITH the answer when everyone was expecting it to remain unsolved.

Come over phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Feel strange
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: I CAME OVER all faint and weak because my sugar level was too low. (British)
  2. Meaning: Affect mentally in such a way as to change behaviour (possibly related to 'overcome')
    (Inseparable | International English | Contributed By: )
    » Example: I'm sorry about last night - I don't know what CAME OVER me.

Come round phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Become conscious, wake up from anaesthetic
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: She CAME ROUND and learned that the operation had been a complete success.
  2. Meaning: Change your opinion
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: At first she didn't like the idea, but she CAME ROUND to our way of thinking in the end.

Come through phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Arrive (messages and information)
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: News is COMING THROUGH of a major accident on the M25, where freezing fog has been making driving conditions extremely dangerous.
  2. Meaning: Communicate an emotion
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: The anger she felt COMES THROUGH.
  3. Meaning: Produce a result
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: They promised they'd do it, but they haven't COME THROUGH yet.

Come through with phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Provide something needed
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: He didn't COME THROUGH WITH the money and they went bust.

Come to phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Become conscious, wake up from anaesthetic
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: She CAME TO an hour after the operation.
  2. Meaning: Result in
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: The two men started arguing but they soon CAME TO blows and started fighting in earnest.

Come up phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Appear
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: I'll be late home tonight because something's COME UP at work has to be ready for tomorrow morning.
  2. Meaning: Rise (the sun)
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: The sun CAME UP just as we reached the outskirts of the town.

Come up against phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Encounter problems or difficulties
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: They CAME UP AGAINST a lot of opposition to their plans for an out-of-town supermarket development.

Come up with phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Think of a solution, excuse, etc.
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: Nobody could COME UP WITH a satisfactory explanation for the accident.

Come upon phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Find by chance
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: I CAME UPON the book in a little second-hand bookshop in Dorset.

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