come to

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?

Idioms and Phrases

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

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

See amount to , def. 2.

See when it comes to .

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 .

Example Sentences

But all of the production lines have been at a standstill since 1 September when the hack first came to light.

From BBC

Thursday is expected to be the wettest day of the week; however, models vary widely when it comes to the total amount of rainfall predicted.

From Los Angeles Times

However, senior doctors and pharmacists have warned that there is severe inequality within London when it comes to accessing weight loss drugs.

From BBC

It will change the debate about the future of the conflict that began more than a century ago when Zionist Jews from Europe came to settle in Palestine.

From BBC

When Chakwera came to power, he vowed to "to clear the rubble of corruption" that has long plagued Malawian politics.

From BBC

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