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COME TO
I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Return to consciousness
Example:
She revived after the doctor gave her an injection
Synonyms:
come to; resuscitate; revive
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "come to" is one way to...):
change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)
Verb group:
animate; quicken; reanimate; recreate; renovate; repair; revive; revivify; vivify (give new life or energy to)
resuscitate; revive (cause to regain consciousness)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sense 2
Meaning:
Cause to experience suddenly
Example:
They were struck with fear
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Verb group:
affect; impress; move; strike (have an emotional or cognitive impact upon)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s somebody
Sense 3
Meaning:
Attain
Example:
The horse finally struck a pace
Synonyms:
come to; strike
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "come to" is one way to...):
accomplish; achieve; attain; reach (to gain with effort)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 4
Meaning:
Be relevant to
Example:
My remark pertained to your earlier comments
Synonyms:
bear on; come to; concern; have to do with; pertain; refer; relate; touch; touch on
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Verb group:
advert; allude; touch (make a more or less disguised reference to)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come to"):
center; center on; concentrate on; focus on; revolve about; revolve around (center upon)
apply; go for; hold (be pertinent or relevant or applicable)
affect; involve; regard (connect closely and often incriminatingly)
interest; matter to (be of importance or consequence)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Context examples:
He had come to New York to avoid the Italian police, and he had already planted a branch of this dreadful society in his new home.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“But, sir,” urged Alleyne, who was white to the lips at these bloody doings, “he hath not yet come to trial.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He gave his friend a few seconds to recover his composure, and then approached the question he had come to put.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
You've neither sense nor memory, and I leave it to fancy where your mothers was that let you come to sea.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Yes, he’ll come to us presently.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mars can only come to this area of your chart for approximately six weeks every two years, so this is an important trend.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
"The best plan will be to walk along the riverbank until we come to the road again," remarked the Lion.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
And the only remedy they found was, to set him to hard work, after which he would infallibly come to himself.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
In rather a too philosophical and connected a strain, perhaps, I have given an account of the conclusions I had come to concerning them in my early years.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Not acquired, gained or come to the possession.
(Not Obtained, NCI Thesaurus)
