Come

/kʌm/ · verb

Meaning

(intransitive) To move nearer to the point of perspective..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To move nearer to the point of perspective.
2. (intransitive) To arrive.
3. (intransitive) To appear; to manifest itself; to cause a reaction by manifesting.
4. (with an infinitive) To begin (to have an opinion or feeling).
5. (with an infinitive) To do something by chance or unintentionally.
6. (intransitive) To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
7. (intransitive, often vulgar, slang) To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
8. (intransitive, of milk) To become butter by being churned.

Example Sentences

She’ll be coming round the mountain when she comes the wrong way […]

Look, who comes yonder?

Yet think not that I come to urge thy crimes, / I did not come to curse thee, Guinevere, […]

Late at night comes Mr. Hudson, the cooper, my neighbour, and tells me that he come from Chatham this evening at five o'clock, and saw this afternoon "The Royal James," "Oake," and "London," burnt by the enemy with their fire-ships: […]

Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps,[…], and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.

So I'd have ate^([sic]) when me Dad had ate, sort of thing, I think, you know when he come home from work, I'd have waited for him, I wouldn't have said I wanted mine at four o'clock[…]

The pain in his leg comes and goes.

The news came as a shock.

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Word Forms

• comes
• coming
• came
• come
• comen
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• comed
• comest
• camest
• camedst
• comedst
• cometh
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• coom

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