Antonyms for come across

Grammar : Verb

Spell : kuhm

Phonetic Transcription : kʌm

miss

Definition of come across

Origin : Old English cuman "come, approach, land; come to oneself, recover; arrive; assemble" (class IV strong verb; past tense cuom, com, past participle cumen), from Proto-Germanic *kwem- (cf. Old Saxon cuman, Old Frisian kuma, Middle Dutch comen, Dutch komen, Old High German queman, German kommen, Old Norse koma, Gothic qiman), from PIE root *gwa-, *gwem- "to go, come" (cf. Sanskrit gamati "he goes," Avestan jamaiti "goes," Tocharian kakmu "come," Lithuanian gemu "to be born," Greek bainein "to go, walk, step," Latin venire "to come").
The substitution of Middle English -o- for Old English -u- before -m-, -n-, or -r- was a scribal habit before minims to avoid misreading the letters in the old style handwriting, which jammed letters. The practice similarly transformed some, monk, tongue, worm. Modern past tense form came is Middle English, probably from Old Norse kvam, replacing Old English cuom.
Remarkably productive with prepositions (NTC's "Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs" lists 198 combinations); consider the varied senses in come to "regain consciousness," come over "possess" (as an emotion), come at "attack," come on (interj.) "be serious," and come off "occur." For sexual senses, see cum.

verb encounter, find

Example sentences :

Had he come across traces of Spurling and gone in pursuit of him?
Extract from : « Murder Point » by Coningsby Dawson

Even when they had not heard it, they had come across its footprints.
Extract from : « Murder Point » by Coningsby Dawson

And did you ever come across a sillier tribe of people than these same rhapsodists?
Extract from : « The Symposium » by Xenophon

I've broken a few records in my time, but you beat anything I've come across.
Extract from : « Mixed Faces » by Roy Norton

And this was what Dick had come across the seas to accomplish.
Extract from : « The Web of the Golden Spider » by Frederick Orin Bartlett

Moreover, nine months or so before, I had come across him in Samarang.
Extract from : « Lord Jim » by Joseph Conrad

One of the men with me said that the fellow was the most desperate gambler he had ever come across.
Extract from : « Notes on My Books » by Joseph Conrad

This is the season when all the fellows who have no money for Baden come across the Alps.
Extract from : « A Rent In A Cloud » by Charles James Lever

Then a glimmer of what she meant did come across him, and he blushed.
Extract from : « Is He Popenjoy? » by Anthony Trollope

She must say something, and those are the first words that come across her mind.
Extract from : « Jolly Sally Pendleton » by Laura Jean Libbey

Synonyms for come across

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