Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. intransitive, idiomatic To recover consciousness after fainting etc.
- v. intransitive, idiomatic, nautical To stop a sailing vessel, especially by turning into the wind. See also come about.
- v. transitive To total; to amount to.
- v. transitive To reach; to arrive at.
- v. transitive To devote attention to in due course; to come around to.
- v. transitive To befall; to affect; to happen to; to come upon.
- v. transitive, usually in present tense To regard or specify, as narrowing a field of choices by category.
WordNet 3.0
- v. return to consciousness
- v. be relevant to
- v. attain.
- v. cause to experience suddenly
Examples
“Rhonda, along with others, started going from house to house, handing out pamphlets, encouraging residents to come to their meetings to talk about the excessive number of neighbors suffering from autoimmune diseases and whether or not the toxic site at 858 East Ferry might have anything to do with their debility.”
“I ordered the creation of the device we have come to nullify today in order to kill Sirajaldin and all his people.”
“Indeed, it has taken several decades for many researchers in the autoimmune-disease field to come to the conclusion that our contaminated environment is causing the human immune system to run amok.”
“One young woman in particular, Cody Unser, the daughter of ex–racecar driver Al Unser, Jr., had been deeply involved in raising funds to help find a cure for TM, and Kerr had come to know her well.”
“If what Tanek suspected was true, the war between the followers of the One True Faith and the heathen Nasnan was about to come to pass, and with it would come global annihilation.”
“I do think you will love it and come to love Rev Jen as well.”
“It is now postcelebrity, but the crowds still come to Pastis, kind of like people lining up to visit Pompeii.”
“And when they had come to the place called Calvary, there they crucified Him, and the criminals, one on the right hand and the other on the left.”
“Even worse, some people were talking about Matloubi, who had come to the United States with a reputation for being a fearless player with a superaggressive style, as the new Stuey Ungar.”
“Unfortunately, what remained of my semirural idyll was about to come to an end: the U.S. Postal Service was planning to build a huge mail processing center off nearby Mussey Road, on land including the Grondin Quarry and the Neilson Farm parcels.”
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
Laban, circumcise, beget, Esau, Rebekah, speckle, Sodom, Pharaoh, Canaanite, Canaan, Jacob, Lot and 1286 more...
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