Base verb

Phrasal verbs with come

The verb come combines with 22 particles to form everyday phrasal verbs. Each particle steers the meaning in its own direction — here they are with clear definitions and examples, so you can see the whole family at once.

22 phrasal verbs · 59 meanings

come about

2 senses
  • Happen, especially in an unplanned way
  • Of a ship, change tack to the opposite side
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come across

2 senses
  • Find or meet someone or something by chance
  • Give a particular impression to others
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come after

1 sense
  • Be later than something in time or order
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come along

3 senses
  • Make progress or develop
  • Accompany someone to a place
  • Arrive or appear, often by chance
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come apart

1 sense
  • Break into pieces or stop holding together
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come around

4 senses
  • Visit someone at their home
  • Regain consciousness after fainting or anaesthesia
  • Eventually agree to or accept an idea
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come away

1 sense
  • Leave a place with a particular feeling or impression
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come back

3 senses
  • Return to a place
  • Become popular or fashionable again
  • Be remembered after being forgotten
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come by

1 sense
  • Pay a brief visit to someone
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come down

6 senses
  • Drop from a high level it has been at
  • Move to a lower level, price or position
  • Have been passed down from earlier generations
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come forth

1 sense
  • Step forward into view, especially to be seen or heard
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come forward

1 sense
  • Volunteer information or help, especially to authorities
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come in

6 senses
  • Enter a room or building
  • Arrive at a destination
  • Become available, fashionable or in season
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come off

5 senses
  • Become detached from something
  • Happen successfully as planned
  • Stop taking a medicine or substance
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come on

6 senses
  • Used to encourage, hurry or challenge someone
  • Begin to develop, especially an illness or weather
  • Start working or be turned on
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come out

1 sense
  • Be revealed publicly
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come over

5 senses
  • Visit by crossing to where you are
  • Visit someone's house or place
  • Be felt by someone suddenly
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come round

3 senses
  • Visit someone briefly at their home
  • Eventually accept a different point of view
  • Regain consciousness after fainting or anaesthesia
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come through

4 senses
  • Pass through to arrive on the other side
  • Survive a difficult or dangerous experience
  • Do what was expected or hoped for
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come together

1 sense
  • Combine or be assembled to form something whole
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come under

1 sense
  • Be subjected to a particular force or scrutiny
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come up

1 sense
  • Arise as a topic or event
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Practice the come family in Sink In

Sink In drills every sense of come with spaced repetition — recognition, particle cloze, and meaning recall — so the whole family sticks instead of blurring together.