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come down with

come down with verb: to develop symptoms or signs of (an illness).

Verb

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

  1. To develop symptoms or signs of (an illness).
    • Near-synonyms: catch, contract, acquire
    • With a scratchy throat and a cough, it feels like I'm coming down with a cold.
    Synonyms:
    catch, contract, acquire
  2. To lay down (money) in payment; to pay.
    • So I diddled around, then came down with the money, and we were finally ready to roll.2011, Charley Rosen, The Wizard of Odds

come down with meaning in Hindi, Malayalam and Kannada

come down with in Hindi

to show symptoms of an illness
उतरना utarnā

come down with in Malayalam

fall ill with, fall sick with, be taken ill with
ഇരയാകുക, രോഗം ബാധിച്ചുകിടപ്പാകുക, രോഗം ബാധിക്കുക, അരുതാതാകുക, ദീനം പിടിക്കുക, രോഗം പിടിക്കുക

come down with in Kannada

ನರಳು, ನರಳಲಾರಂಭಿಸು

Synonyms of come down with

Forms of come down with

third-person singular presentcomes down with
present participlecoming down with
pastcame down with
past participlecome down with

Words formed from come down with

Questions about come down with

What does come down with mean?
Come down with means to develop symptoms or signs of (an illness).
What is come down with in Hindi?
Come down with in Hindi is उतरना (utarnā). See Come down with meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is come down with?
Come down with is a verb.
What is the past tense of come down with?
The past tense of come down with is came down with.

Words near come down with in the dictionary

  1. come down the road
  2. come down to
  3. come down to earth
  4. come down to us
  5. come down upon
  6. come down with
  7. come down with one's dust
  8. come down with the dust
  9. come ed
  10. come first
  11. come for

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Adapted from Wiktionary: come down with (page history and authors); come down with (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); come down with (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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