come to

Verb

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

1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To recover consciousness after fainting etc.
   • She came to with the aid of smelling salts.

   Synonyms:

   come to one's senses, come back to one's senses, come to oneself, come round, come around, revive

2. (idiomatic, intransitive) To stop a sailing vessel, especially by turning into the wind. See also come about.
   • The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I
3. (transitive) To total; to amount to.
   • so how much does that come to?; the bill comes to £10 each
4. (transitive) To reach; to arrive at.
   • come to an end; come to a conclusion; come to an agreement; come to a halt
   • I don't know what the world is coming to! Everything seems so crazy these days.
5. (transitive) To seek help from.
   • You can always come to me when you're feeling sad.
6. (transitive) To devote attention to in due course; to come around to.
   • I'll come to your question in a minute.
7. (transitive) To befall; to happen to; to come upon.
   • I pray no harm will come to you.
   • My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the...1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter III, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   affect

8. (present, regional, transitive) To regard or specifically pertain to.
   • He's the best when it comes to detective fiction.
   • When it comes to remorseless criminals, this guy takes the cake.
9. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, to.