See come round on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "From come + round.",
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},
{
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},
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"To change direction."
],
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"_dis1": "93 3 2 2 0",
"sense": "change direction",
"word": "put about"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 3 2 2 0",
"sense": "change direction",
"word": "turn around"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 3 2 2 0",
"sense": "change direction",
"word": "wheel"
}
],
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"_dis1": "92 5 1 1 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to change direction",
"word": "umdrehen"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 5 1 1 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to change direction",
"word": "wenden"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 5 1 1 0",
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"sense": "to change direction",
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"text": "I'll explain it again, and maybe he'll come round to my way of thinking.",
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},
{
"text": "He's a reasonable man. I knew he'd come round eventually.",
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}
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"To change one's opinion to a prevailing one."
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"word": "give way"
}
],
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"sense": "to change one's opinion",
"word": "se raviser"
},
{
"_dis1": "11 80 5 2 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to change one's opinion",
"word": "einlenken"
},
{
"_dis1": "11 80 5 2 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to change one's opinion",
"word": "umschwenken"
},
{
"_dis1": "11 80 5 2 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to change one's opinion",
"word": "zu der Einsicht gelangen"
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"text": "After the blow to my head, I took a while to come round.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:",
"text": "Signalman Bridges was killed by the blast, as was fireman Nightall. Amazingly, driver Gimbert came round some 200 yards away, on the grass outside the Station Hotel where he had been flung.",
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}
],
"glosses": [
"To return to a former condition.",
"To recover consciousness, to come to"
],
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"recover",
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],
[
"consciousness",
"consciousness"
],
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"come to",
"come to"
]
],
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],
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{
"_dis1": "5 3 89 2 2",
"sense": "recover consciousness",
"word": "come to"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 3 89 2 2",
"sense": "recover consciousness",
"word": "come to one's senses"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 3 89 2 2",
"sense": "recover consciousness",
"word": "wake up"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "1 2 94 2 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to recover consciousness",
"word": "zu sich kommen"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 94 2 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to recover consciousness",
"word": "zu Bewusstsein kommen"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 94 2 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to recover consciousness",
"word": "wieder ansprechbar sein"
}
]
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"glosses": [
"To return to a former condition.",
"To cease anger or hostility."
],
"id": "en-come_round-en-verb-62RN~S2j",
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"cease",
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],
[
"anger",
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],
[
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{
"_dis1": "5 2 5 86 2",
"sense": "cease hostility",
"word": "calm down"
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{
"_dis1": "5 2 5 86 2",
"sense": "cease hostility",
"word": "cease fire"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 2 5 86 2",
"sense": "cease hostility",
"word": "pull in one's horns"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "0 1 2 97 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to cease anger or hostility",
"word": "zur Vernunft kommen"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 2 97 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to cease anger or hostility",
"word": "Vernunft annehmen"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 2 97 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to cease anger or hostility",
"word": "zur Besinnung kommen"
}
]
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{
"text": "Would you like to come round for dinner tonight?",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "What day does the garbage man come round?",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:",
"text": "That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To visit someone's home or other regular place."
],
"id": "en-come_round-en-verb-if185sqR",
"links": [
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"home",
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]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "4 2 5 2 87",
"sense": "visit someone's home",
"word": "call on"
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],
"translations": [
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"_dis1": "2 4 12 6 75",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to visit someone",
"word": "passer"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 4 12 6 75",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to visit someone",
"word": "vorbeikommen"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 4 12 6 75",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to visit someone",
"word": "vorbeischauen"
}
]
}
],
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{
"_dis1": "1 0 49 49 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to return to a former condition",
"word": "wiederkommen"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 0 49 49 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to return to a former condition",
"word": "zurückkommen"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 0 49 49 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to return to a former condition",
"word": "wieder da sein"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 0 49 49 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to return to a former condition",
"word": "wieder der / die Alte sein"
}
],
"word": "come round"
}
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"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with German translations"
],
"etymology_text": "From come + round.",
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"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
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},
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"To change direction."
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},
{
"ref": "2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:",
"text": "Signalman Bridges was killed by the blast, as was fireman Nightall. Amazingly, driver Gimbert came round some 200 yards away, on the grass outside the Station Hotel where he had been flung.",
"type": "quote"
}
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"To recover consciousness, to come to"
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"text": "Would you like to come round for dinner tonight?",
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{
"text": "What day does the garbage man come round?",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:",
"text": "That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.",
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],
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"To visit someone's home or other regular place."
],
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]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "change direction",
"word": "put about"
},
{
"sense": "change direction",
"word": "turn around"
},
{
"sense": "change direction",
"word": "wheel"
},
{
"sense": "change opinion to a prevailing one",
"word": "give way"
},
{
"sense": "recover consciousness",
"word": "come to"
},
{
"sense": "recover consciousness",
"word": "come to one's senses"
},
{
"sense": "recover consciousness",
"word": "wake up"
},
{
"sense": "cease hostility",
"word": "calm down"
},
{
"sense": "cease hostility",
"word": "cease fire"
},
{
"sense": "cease hostility",
"word": "pull in one's horns"
},
{
"sense": "visit someone's home",
"word": "call on"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to change direction",
"word": "umdrehen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to change direction",
"word": "wenden"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to change direction",
"word": "umkehren"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to change one's opinion",
"word": "se raviser"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to change one's opinion",
"word": "einlenken"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to change one's opinion",
"word": "umschwenken"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to change one's opinion",
"word": "zu der Einsicht gelangen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to return to a former condition",
"word": "wiederkommen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to return to a former condition",
"word": "zurückkommen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to return to a former condition",
"word": "wieder da sein"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to return to a former condition",
"word": "wieder der / die Alte sein"
},
{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "to recover consciousness",
"word": "zu sich kommen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to recover consciousness",
"word": "zu Bewusstsein kommen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to recover consciousness",
"word": "wieder ansprechbar sein"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to cease anger or hostility",
"word": "zur Vernunft kommen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to cease anger or hostility",
"word": "Vernunft annehmen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to cease anger or hostility",
"word": "zur Besinnung kommen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to visit someone",
"word": "passer"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to visit someone",
"word": "vorbeikommen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to visit someone",
"word": "vorbeischauen"
}
],
"word": "come round"
}
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