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COME OVER
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Communicate the intended meaning or impression
Example:
He came across very clearly
Synonyms:
come across; come over
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "come over" is one way to...):
communicate; intercommunicate (transmit thoughts or feelings)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Context examples:
Beauty Smith had regained his feet and come over to look at White Fang.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Great God!—what delusion has come over me?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Mrs. Dixon has persuaded her father and mother to come over and see her directly.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
But a blight had come over my existence, and I only visited these people for the sake of the information they might give me on the subject in which my interest was so terribly profound.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
However, he still felt very hungry, and the salad tasted very nice; so he ate on till he came to another kind of salad, and scarcely had he tasted it when he felt another change come over him, and soon saw that he was lucky enough to have found his old shape again.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Consider, here are the two Miss Careys come over from Newton, the three Miss Dashwoods walked up from the cottage, and Mr. Willoughby got up two hours before his usual time, on purpose to go to Whitwell.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I wonder what has come over me to-day.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
An extraordinary change had come over his face. It was writhing with inward merriment. His two eyes were shining like stars.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“I’ve come over this little matter of Colonel Barclay’s death.”
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We'll all be good to him because he hasn't got any mother, and he may come over and see us, mayn't he, Marmee?
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
