come over
— phrasal verb with come uk/kʌm/us/kʌm/verb came, come
(SEEM)
C2 UK to seem to be a particular type of person:
I watched the interview and felt he came over as quite arrogant.
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- I think she comes over as very nervous.
- He doesn't come over as particularly trustworthy.
- He came over as very knowledgeable.
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Seeming and purporting to be
- apparent
- as if/though idiom
- by the look(s) of things idiom
- come
- come across
- face
- impression
- outward
- paper
- persona
- prima facie
- purport
- putative
- reportedly
- so-called
- sound
- supposed
- supposedly
- verisimilitude
- you can't judge a book by its cover idiom
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(MOVE)
C1 to come to a place, move from one place to another, or move towards someone:
Come over here!
Is your family coming over from Greece for the wedding?
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Advancing and moving forward
- advance
- advancing
- approach
- beeline
- come
- come up
- gain
- gain on sb/sth
- gravitate towards/to sth/sb
- head
- make
- make towards sth/sb
- proceed
- pull
- push
- roll
- slide
- slip
- surge
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(FEEL)
[ L only + adj ] UK to be influenced suddenly and unexpectedly by a strange feeling:
I stood up too quickly and came over all dizzy/faint/peculiar.
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Experiencing and suffering
- afflict
- affliction
- almost/nearly die of sth idiom
- be a martyr to sth idiom
- be a victim of your own success idiom
- be devoured by sth idiom
- get the short end of the stick idiom
- go through sth
- grip
- hands-on
- hold
- hold on
- ride
- run into sth
- sample
- seat
- sense
- underwent
- ups and downs
- writhe
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