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come to life

come to life verb: to become alive, to be given life; to be brought into existence.

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To become alive, to be given life; to be brought into existence.
    • We want to know exactly how the first cells came to life on earth.1999, Lee Smolin, New York Times, We All Came From Mars
    • I don't think of Hobbes as a doll that miraculously comes to life when Calvin's around. Neither do I think of Hobbes as the product of Calvin's imagination... Hobbes is more about the subjective nature of reality than about dolls coming to life.1995, Bill Watterson, The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book, Kansas City, MO: Andrews and McMeel, page 22
  2. (idiomatic, intransitive) To appear as if alive.
    • The CGI-generated characters came to life through an incredible display of a cutting-edge 3D technology.
  3. (idiomatic, intransitive) To start to become energetic.
    • It was only after Yakubu sliced another chance into the side netting, a bad miss by the former Everton striker, that Norwich came to life.2011 October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport

come to life meaning in Malayalam

come to life in Malayalam

come alive, become active, wake up
ജീവൻവയ്ക്കുക, സജീവമാകുക, സചേതനമാകുക, കണ്ണു മിഴിക്കുക, കണ്ണുതുറക്കുക, പ്രവർത്തനക്ഷമമാകുക
become animate, come alive
ജീവൻവയ്ക്കുക, സചേതനമാകുക, നിഷ്ക്രിയത്വത്തിൽനിന്നു പുറത്തുവരുക, ഉയിരിടുക, ജീവനുള്ളതാകുക

Forms of come to life

third-person singular presentcomes to life
present participlecoming to life
pastcame to life
past participlecome to life

Questions about come to life

What does come to life mean?
Come to life means to become alive, to be given life; to be brought into existence.
What is come to life in Malayalam?
Come to life in Malayalam is ജീവൻവയ്ക്കുക, സജീവമാകുക, സചേതനമാകുക. See Come to life meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is come to life?
Come to life is a verb.
What is the past tense of come to life?
The past tense of come to life is came to life.

Words near come to life in the dictionary

  1. come to grief
  2. come to grips
  3. come to grips with
  4. come to hand
  5. come to Jesus
  6. come to life
  7. come to light
  8. come to mention it
  9. come to mind
  10. come to naught
  11. come to nothing

Source and license

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