come round
UK US come around— phrasal verb with come uk/kʌm/us/kʌm/verb came, come
(VISIT)
A2 to visit someone in their home:
Come round tonight and we'll watch a video.
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- Nick came round earlier.
- Do you want to come round and play chess later?
- The children came round for tea.
- He's always coming round for a chat.
(CHANGE YOUR MIND)
C2 to change your opinion of something, often influenced by another person's opinion:
He'll come round to my point of view, given a bit of time.
Do you still dislike your office, or have you come round to thinking it's all right?
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Changing your mind
- 180
- about-turn
- back away
- back out
- backpedal
- cave in
- change of heart idiom
- change your tune idiom
- climbdown
- cold
- move
- oscillate
- pendulum
- pull
- pull (sb/sth) out
- realign
- think better of sth idiom
- time-server
- U-turn
- volte-face
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(HAPPEN)
If an event that happens regularly comes round, it happens at its usual time:
Christmas comes round so quickly!
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Occurring and happening
- afoot
- assail
- asynchronous
- attendant
- be at work idiom
- become
- come
- come up
- event
- go ahead
- go down
- go hand in hand with sth idiom
- go together
- go with sth
- hand
- happen
- intervene
- materialize
- turn up
- underway
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(BECOME CONSCIOUS)
C1 to become conscious again after an accident or operation:
She hasn't come round from the anaesthetic yet.
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Animal physiology: not sleeping & not unconscious
- awoke
- be in the land of the living idiom
- consciousness
- insomniac
- keep sb up
- knock
- land
- morning person
- not sleep a wink idiom
- rise
- rise and shine! idiom
- sit up
- stay
- stir
- toss
- wait up
- wake (sb) up
- waking
- woke
- woken
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