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come by

come by verb: to obtain; to get, especially by chance or involuntarily.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To obtain; to get, especially by chance or involuntarily.
    • A loyal friend is hard to come by.
    • Somehow he came by a substantial fortune.
  2. (intransitive) To come near to; to pass; to visit.
    • Your beau came by while you were shopping.

Interjection

  1. A command to a sheepdog to move clockwise around the sheep.

come by meaning in Kannada

come by in Kannada

ಸಂಪಾದಿಸು, ಹೊಂದು, ಗಳಿಸು, ಹತ್ತಿರ ಬರು

Forms of come by

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

Questions about come by

What does come by mean?
Come by means to obtain; to get, especially by chance or involuntarily.
What is come by in Kannada?
Come by in Kannada is ಸಂಪಾದಿಸು, ಹೊಂದು, ಗಳಿಸು. See Come by meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is come by?
Come by can be a verb or an interjection.
What is the past tense of come by?
The past tense of come by is came by.

Words near come by in the dictionary

  1. come back to bite
  2. come back to haunt
  3. come back to one's senses
  4. come before
  5. come between
  6. come by
  7. Come By Chance
  8. come calling
  9. come clean
  10. come come
  11. come correct

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Adapted from Wiktionary: come by (page history and authors); come by (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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