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come to English

Learners of English as a second language usually know the word come to once they have reached the level A1 – Beginner. English words by learner level A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2

Meaning come to meaning

What does come to mean?

come to

— verb (= hit, strike) cause to experience suddenly Panic struck me An interesting idea hit her A thought came to me The thought struck terror in our minds They were struck with fear

— verb (= strike) attain The horse finally struck a pace

— verb (= refer, pertain) be relevant to There were lots of questions referring to her talk My remark pertained to your earlier comments

— verb (= revive) return to consciousness The patient came to quickly She revived after the doctor gave her an injection

Synonyms come to synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as come to?

come to English » English

bring to

reach

amount to

get to

come round

strike

touch on

revive

relate

recover consciousness

bear on

arrive

touch

regain consciousness

refer

pertain

heave to

consciousness

concern

bring up

be at

amount

add up to

total

take to

resuscitate

recall to

pull round

meet

jump to

join

hit

have-to doe with

go to

get at

get

cost

come

arrive at

approach

yoke

visit

turn to

sum up

succour

succor

succeed to

string along

string

stand to attention

Topics come to topics

What do people use come to to talk about?

Person Healthy Symptom of disease

Lose consciousness

• What words refer to regaining consciousness?
  regain consciousness come to come out of the coma

Language and thought

Think

• What words refer to thinking something?
  think (that) have a thought come to come to mind enter your mind enter your head cross your mind hit on occur to present itself spring to mind strike wonder

Language and thought Think

Remember

• What words refer to remembering something?
  remember recall remind oneself call to mind bring to mind think of recognize recognition recollect review come (back) to mindful heed think in retrospect

Daily life Sleep

Wake up

• What words refer to waking up?
  wake up come to awaken come out of a deep sleep be startled out of sleep

Physical actions Move Move toward something Leave

Arrive

• What words refer to arriving at a place?
  arrive arrival reach get to come to attain land landing advent

States Quantity Count

Add numbers

• What words indicate that the number of a group of things reaches a particular total?
  come to amount to total (v) reach add up to make bring the number to bring the total to number (v)

Grammar Semantic constituents related to verbs

Agent-oriented modalities

• venitive: the agent moves toward the deictic center in order to do something, literally 'be coming to do something'. This may be related to the verb 'to come' and may have future uses as well.
  come to

Examples come to examples

How do I use come to in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

I'll come to pee again tomorrow.

Then, did he come to find me all the way from Australia?