come over

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come over

verb comes over · coming over · came over · 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.

    Similar: overtake

  2. informal To seem; to come to express a feeling or state. That's why he's come over strange.

    Similar: 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

    Similar: 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.

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verb to get to a place

日本語遣って来る yatte kuru
Françaisvenir
Ελληνικάέρχομαι érchomai
Русскийподскочить podskočitʹ, подъехать podʺjexatʹ

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@misc{come_over_2026,
  title = {come over},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/come%20over},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}