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    come
    [kəm]
    verb
    come (verb) · comes (third person present) · came (past tense) · coming (present participle) · come (past participle)
    1. move or travel toward or into a place thought of as near or familiar to the speaker:
      "Jessica came into the kitchen" · "I came here on holiday with my parents" · "she came downstairs" · "he came rushing out" · "damp is coming through the ceiling"
      • arrive at a specified place:
        "we walked along till we came to a stream" · "it was very late when she came back" · "the letter hasn't come yet"
      • (of a thing) reach or extend to a specified point:
        "women wore slim dresses that came all the way to their shoes" · "the path comes straight down"
      • (be coming)
        approach:
        "someone was coming" · "she heard the train coming"
      • travel in order to be with a specified person, to do a specified thing, or to be present at an event:
        "the police came" · "come and live with me" · "the electrician came to fix the stove" · "we have certainly come a long way since Aristotle"
      • join someone in participating in a specified activity or course of action:
        "do you want to come fishing tomorrow?"
      • said to someone when correcting, reassuring, or urging them on:
        "“Come, come, child, no need to thank me.”"
    2. occur; happen; take place:
      "twilight had not yet come" · "his father waited for a phone call that never came" · "the attacks came without warning" · "the best is yet to come" · "the cuts come amid increasing competition in Hong Kong"
      • be heard, perceived, or experienced:
        "a voice came from the kitchen" · "it came as a great shock" · "“No,” came the reply"
    3. take or occupy a specified position in space, order, or priority:
      "prisons come far down the list of priorities" · "I make sure my kids come first"
      • achieve a specified place in a race or contest:
        "she came second among sixty contestants"
      • (come between)
        interfere with or disturb the relationship of (two people):
        "I let my stupid pride come between us" · "nothing should come between brothers"
    4. pass into a specified state, especially one of separation or disunion:
      "his shirt had come undone"
      • reach eventually a certain condition or state of mind:
        "he had come to realize she was no puppet"
    5. be sold, available, or found in a specified form:
      "the cars come with a variety of extras" · "they come in three sizes"
    6. informal
      have an orgasm.
    preposition
    informal
    1. when a specified time is reached or event happens:
      "I don't think that they'll be far away from honors come the new season"
    noun
    informal
    come (noun)
    1. semen ejaculated by a man at an orgasm.
    Origin
    Old English cuman, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch komen and German kommen.
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    verb
    1. move or travel toward or into a place thought of as near or familiar to the speaker:
      approach
      advance
      near
      proceed
      forge
      move nearer
      move closer
      draw nigh
      draw close/closer
      draw near/nearer
      make progress
      make headway
      Opposite:
      go away
    2. occur; happen; take place:
      happen
      occur
      take place
      come about
      transpire
      fall
      crop up
      materialize
      arise
      arrive
      appear
      surface
      ensue
      follow
      come to pass
      befall
      betide
      hap
      eventuate
      present itself
      • pass into a specified state, especially one of separation or disunion:
        break up
        disintegrate
        splinter
        come unstuck
        crumble
        separate
        split
        tear
        collapse
        dissolve
        fall to bits/pieces
        come to bits/pieces
        • be sold, available, or found in a specified form:
          be available
          be made
          be produced
          be for sale
          be on offer
        • have an orgasm.
          climax
          orgasm
          cum
          achieve orgasm
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