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Antonyms for came across

Grammar : Verb
Spell : kuhm
Phonetic Transcription : kÊŒm

Definition of came 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 :
  • "Will, let's go to meeting to-night," he said, the next time he came across Will Bailey.
  • Extract from : « Tip Lewis and His Lamp » by Pansy
  • We were on our honeymoon journey, and we came across him in Paris.
  • Extract from : « A Writer's Recollections (In Two Volumes), Volume I » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
  • The man started a little as she spoke and came across the road towards them.
  • Extract from : « Jan and Her Job » by L. Allen Harker
  • Thus she came across the white gloves, and she feared to look in them.
  • Extract from : « A Singer from the Sea » by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
  • She came across a border of balm, and left not a leaf of it unplucked.
  • Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola
  • Mrs. Wilkins, of all the aggravating women I ever came across, you are the worst.
  • Extract from : « The Universal Reciter » by Various
  • You're about the laziest and most shiftless man I ever came across.
  • Extract from : « Paul Prescott's Charge » by Horatio Alger
  • The only sensible man I came across was the cabman who drove me about.
  • Extract from : « Lord Jim » by Joseph Conrad
  • As the habit of these fellows is, he had shown it to the first white man he came across.
  • Extract from : « The Shadow-Line » by Joseph Conrad
  • We came across McConkey with his machine gun at a street corner.
  • Extract from : « The Red Hand of Ulster » by George A. Birmingham

Synonyms for came across

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