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came and went

came and went is the simple past of come and go.

Meaning of come and go

Verb

come and go (third-person singular simple present comes and goes, present participle coming and going, simple past came and went, past participle come and gone)

  1. To alternately enter and exit, arrive and depart (either physically or figuratively).
    • He comes and goes as he pleases.
  2. (idiomatic) To repeatedly appear and disappear; to be transient.
    • My headaches come and go, but the pain in my neck is constant.
  3. to elapse, pass by; to occur
    • THIRTY years have come and gone, / Melting away like Southern Snows, / Since, in the light of a summer's night, / I went to the garden to seek my Rose.1875, Horatio Alger, Jr, “Rose in the Garden”, in Ballads

Questions about came and went

What is came and went the simple past of?
Came and went is the simple past of come and go.

Words near came and went in the dictionary

  1. came across with
  2. came after
  3. came alive
  4. came aloft
  5. came along
  6. came and went
  7. came apart
  8. came apart at the seams
  9. came around
  10. came as no surprise
  11. came at

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