come to

British  

verb

1. to regain consciousness or return to one's normal state

2. (adverb) nautical to slow a vessel or bring her to a stop

3. (preposition) to amount to (a sum of money)

   your bill comes to four pounds

4. (preposition) to arrive at (a certain state)

   what is the world coming to?

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come to Idioms  

1. Recover consciousness, as in She fainted but quickly came to . [Second half of 1500s]

2. Arrive at, learn, as in I came to see that Tom had been right all along . [c. 1700]

3. See amount to , def. 2.

4. See when it comes to .

5. Stop a sailboat or other vessel by bringing the bow into the wind or dropping anchor, as in “The gale having gone over, we came to” (Richard Dana, Two Years Before the Mast , 1840). [Early 1700s] Also see the subsequent entries beginning with come to .

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Example Sentences

She receives about $12,000 a year from Social Security, and her property taxes come to almost half of that.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

For that to come to pass would mean a nasty night for Labour, and the Conservatives.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

How close did he come to executing his plan?

From BBC • May 1, 2026

“I think it would help if we had more open lines of communication where we can try to come to a compromise.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

When Ermelo had finally caught on to him, he had come to Haarlem and teamed up with Willemse and Kapteyn.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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