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Used to indicate that the following event, period, or change in state occurred in the past, after a time of waiting, enduring, or anticipation
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To move from further away to nearer to.
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She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes [...]
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To arrive.
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To appear, to manifest itself.
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The pain in his leg comes and goes.
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(with an infinitive) To begin to have an opinion or feeling.
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She came to think of that country as her home.
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(with an infinitive) To do something by chance, without intending to do it.
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Could you tell me how the document came to be discovered?
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To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
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Which letter comes before Y? Winter comes after autumn.
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To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
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He came after a few minutes.
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(with close) To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
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One of the screws came loose, and the skateboard fell apart.
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(with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
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He came to SF literature a confirmed technophile, and nothing made him happier than to read a manuscript thick with imaginary gizmos and whatzits.
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(fossil word) To become, to turn out to be.
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He was a dream come true.
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To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
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A new sports car doesn't come cheap.
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To carry through; to succeed in.
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You can't come any tricks here.
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Happen.
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This kind of accident comes when you are careless.
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(with from or sometimes of) To have as an origin, originate.
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(of grain) To germinate.
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To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of.
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Don't come the innocent victim. We all know who's to blame here.
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To have an orgasm, to feel the sensation of an orgasm.
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To ejaculate.