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come to terms

come to terms verb: to reach an agreement or settle a dispute.

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic, often) To reach an agreement or settle a dispute.
    • We hope someday she and her mother will come to terms on the matter.
    • In the rumbustious atmosphere of the mania years, 1845 and 1846, this state of things gave rise to acrimony which both sides faced with confidence; but as the reaction set in during 1847, it seemed better to come to terms.1955 February, Michael Robbins, “A Railway Treaty: The Brighton and South Eastern Agreement of 1848”, in Railway Magazine, page 98

come to terms meaning in Malayalam and Kannada

come to terms in Malayalam

make a deal, reach an agreement, reach an understand-ing
യോജിപ്പിൽ എത്തിച്ചേരുക, ഒത്തുതീർപ്പിലെത്തുക, ധാരണയിലെത്തുക, ധാരണയാകുക, സന്ധിയിലെത്തുക, കരാറിലെത്തുക
come to accept, accept, reconcile oneself to
പൊരുത്തപ്പെടുക, സ്വീകരിക്കുക, കെെക്കൊള്ളുക, അംഗീകരിക്കുക, ഇണങ്ങിച്ചേരുക, രാജിയാവുക

come to terms in Kannada

ಒಪ್ಪಂದ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳು, ವಿವಾದ ಪರಿಹರಿಸು, ಒಪ್ಪಂದಕ್ಕೆ ಬರು, ರಾಜಿಮಾಡಿಕೊ

Forms of come to terms

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

Words formed from come to terms

Questions about come to terms

What does come to terms mean?
Come to terms means to reach an agreement or settle a dispute.
What is come to terms in Malayalam?
Come to terms in Malayalam is യോജിപ്പിൽ എത്തിച്ചേരുക, ഒത്തുതീർപ്പിലെത്തുക, ധാരണയിലെത്തുക. See Come to terms meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is come to terms?
Come to terms is a verb.
What is the past tense of come to terms?
The past tense of come to terms is came to terms.

Words near come to terms in the dictionary

  1. come to pass
  2. come to power
  3. come to rest
  4. come to someone's aid
  5. come to someone's rescue
  6. come to terms
  7. come to terms with
  8. come to that
  9. come to the party
  10. come to the scratch
  11. come to think of it

Source and license

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