come to oneself

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come to oneself

verb comes to oneself · coming to oneself · came to oneself · come to oneself

  1. idiomatic, intransitive To gain consciousness or self-control. When I came to myself I was lying, not in the outer blackness of the Mohune vault, not on a floor of sand; but in a bed of sweet clean linen, and in a little whitewashed room, through the window of which the spring sunlight streamed.

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@misc{come_to_oneself_2026,
  title = {come to oneself},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/come%20to%20oneself},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}