COME OVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does come over mean? 

• COME OVER (verb)
  The verb COME OVER has 1 sense:

1. communicate the intended meaning or impression

  Familiarity information: COME OVER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COME OVER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Communicate the intended meaning or impression

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

come across; come over

Context example:

He came across very clearly

Hypernyms (to "come over" is one way to...):

communicate; intercommunicate (transmit thoughts or feelings)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

A chill of fear had come over me, as I thought that his absence might mean that some blow had fallen during the night.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Some change had come over her body.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"Hermann von Schmidt," Martin answered cheerfully, "I've a good mind to come over and punch that Dutch nose of yours."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A change had come over me.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A change had come over Holmes’s manner.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here again before evening.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Mayn't we come over some day while you are at your sister's? Or, better yet, won't you come over and have dinner with us?"

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

What, in the name of the devil, hath come over the folk?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“As long as you are here, my pet, I shall come over every week of my life to see you. One day, every week of my life!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was not pleasant, but a better spirit had come over her, and presently a chance offered for proving it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)