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comes over

comes over is the third-person singular simple present indicative of come over.

Meaning of come over

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To affect in a sudden, unprecedented or surprising manner; to overwhelm a person's ordinarily contrary impulse.
    • I apologise for my behaviour last night. I don't know what came over me.
    Synonyms:
    overtake
  2. (informal) To seem; to come to express a feeling or state.
    • That's why he's come over strange.
  3. (intransitive) To change one's position or location, especially to someone else's home or to an opposing side in competition or conflict.
    • come over for coffee and cake
  4. (dated, slang, transitive) To deceive or get the better of; overreach.
    • Some fine day we may have the country raised, and the gendarmes down upon us from Strasburg, and all owing to your pretty doll, with her cunning ways of coming over you.1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman

Questions about comes over

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Comes over is the third-person singular simple present indicative of come over.

Words near comes over in the dictionary

  1. comes out of the closet
  2. comes out of the woodwork
  3. comes out on top
  4. comes out swinging
  5. comes out with
  6. comes over
  7. comes right
  8. comes round
  9. comes running
  10. comes short
  11. comes the acid

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