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come at

come at verb: to come to; to attend.

Verb

come at (third-person singular simple present comes at, present participle coming at, simple past came at, past participle come at)

  1. (obsolete) To come to; to attend.
  2. (obsolete) To enter into sexual relations with; to come on to (someone).
  3. To get to, especially with effort or difficulty.
    • His precise meaning was not easy to come at.
  4. To attack (someone); to harass (someone); to challenge (someone) to a fight.
    • As I backed away, he came at me with a knife.
    • a. 2001, Paul Keating, quoted in 2001, Brett Evans, The Life and Soul of the Party: A Portrait of Modern Labor, page 17,
      ‘He thought he′d come at the Australian Labor Party from the left. He thought he′d tie up the Catholic Church and the East Timor constituency by coming at Labor from that...
  5. (Australia, New Zealand, slang, transitive) To accept (a situation); to agree to do; to try.
    • Nah, mate – I'm not going to come at that again. Too risky.
    • Mr. O'Loghlen: Do you think a factory would come at that?1922, Australian Parliament, Parliamentary Debates, volume 100, page 1139

come at meaning in Hindi

come at in Hindi

to come at
आना ānā

Examples of come at in a sentence

  • And if we got through that, they′d come at us again in February or March.2010, Bob Ellis, One Hundred Days of Summer: How We Got to Where We Are, unnumbered page:
  • Somehow I don′t think ausadmin or news server managers at large would come at that idea.2000 October 24, Gary Meadows, “Is Scott Steel neutral in act-b? (was: The Great Australian Confusion)”, in aus.culture.true-blue (Usenet):
  • […]he would have liked to be a roving correspondent for both the ABC and the BBC, but the BBC would not come at that arrangement.2006, Kenneth Stanley Inglis, This is the ABC: The Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1932-1983, page 174:

Forms of come at

third-person singular presentcomes at
present participlecoming at
pastcame at
past participlecome at

Words formed from come at

Questions about come at

What does come at mean?
Come at means to come to; to attend.
What is come at in Hindi?
Come at in Hindi is आना (ānā). See Come at meaning in Hindi.
How do you use come at in a sentence?
And if we got through that, they′d come at us again in February or March.
What part of speech is come at?
Come at is a verb.
What is the past tense of come at?
The past tense of come at is came at.

Words near come at in the dictionary

  1. come and gone
  2. come apart
  3. come apart at the seams
  4. come around
  5. come as no surprise
  6. come at
  7. come at a cost
  8. come at me
  9. come away
  10. come away empty
  11. come back

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: come at (page history and authors); आना (Hindi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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