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come round

come round verb: to change direction.

Verb

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

  1. To change direction.
  2. To change one's opinion to a prevailing one.
    • I'll explain it again, and maybe he'll come round to my way of thinking.
    • He's a reasonable man. I knew he'd come round eventually.
    Synonyms:
    give way
  3. To recover consciousness, to come to
    • After the blow to my head, I took a while to come round.
    • Signalman Bridges was killed by the blast, as was fireman Nightall. Amazingly, driver Gimbert came round some 200 yards away, on the grass outside the Station Hotel where he had been flung.2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43
  4. To cease anger or hostility.
  5. To visit someone's home or other regular place.
    • Would you like to come round for dinner tonight?
    • What day does the garbage man come round?
    Synonyms:
    call on

come round meaning in Malayalam and Kannada

come round in Malayalam

regain consciousness, come to, come to one's senses
ബോധം വരുക, ബോധം വീണ്ടുകിട്ടുക, ബോധം വീണ്ടെടുക്കുക, ബോധക്ഷയം നീങ്ങി പൂർവ്വസ്ഥിതിയിലാവുക, ബോധക്ഷയം നീങ്ങി സാധാരണ സ്ഥിതിയിലാവുക, വെളിവു വീഴുക
be converted, be won over (by), agree (with)
പരിവർത്തനപ്പെടുക, മറ്റൊരാളാൽ സ്വാധീനിക്കപ്പെടുക, മറ്റൊരാളുടെ അഭിപ്രായഗതിയോടു യോജിക്കുക, മനം മാറുക, മനസ്സുമാറ്റുക, പ്രേരിപ്പിക്കപ്പെടുക
take place, occur, happen
ഉണ്ടാകുക, നടക്കുക, ആകുക, ഇടയാകുക, ഇടവരുക, ഭവിക്കുക
visit, call in, call round
സന്ദർശിക്കുക, സന്ദർശനം നടത്തുക, സുഹൃത് സന്ദർശനം നടത്തുക, സൗഹൃദസന്ദർശനം നടത്തുക, പോയി കാണുക, കാണാൻചെല്ലക

come round in Kannada

ಸುಸ್ಥಿತಿಗೆ ಬರು, ರೋಗದಿಂದ ಚೇತರಿಸಿಕೊ, ಒಪ್ಪಿಕೊ, ರಾಜಿಯಾಗು, ಸಮ್ಮತಿಸು, ಪುನರಾವರ್ತನೆಯಾಗು

Synonyms of come round

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Forms of come round

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

Origin of come round

From come + round.

Questions about come round

What does come round mean?
Come round means to change direction.
What is come round in Malayalam?
Come round in Malayalam is ബോധം വരുക, ബോധം വീണ്ടുകിട്ടുക, ബോധം വീണ്ടെടുക്കുക. See Come round meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is come round?
Come round is a verb.
What is the past tense of come round?
The past tense of come round is came round.

Words near come round in the dictionary

  1. come out with
  2. come over
  3. come rain or shine
  4. come rain or snow
  5. come right
  6. come round
  7. come running
  8. come short
  9. come stà
  10. come the acid
  11. come the old acid

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