coming 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.

   Synonyms:

   come across, come off

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

   Synonyms:

   come by, drop by, stop by, come across

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