CAME ROUND Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

came round

verb

past tense of come round

as in came to

to gain consciousness again the medic waved smelling salts under his nose until he came round

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Relevance

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as in agreed

to give or express one's approval (as to a proposal) she's cool to the idea right now, but sooner or later she'll come round

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Technicians came to check the mechanism but could find no explanation for the incident.

— Elvira Navarro, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
Emilee Chinn / Getty Images The aging core The once-youthful core that came to define two straight World Cup cycles will soon age into its 30s.

— Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of came to

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One particularly big shift came around 2000, when about 280 colleges and universities allowed applicants to apply without submitting scores for the SAT or the ACT, another common standardized test.

— Beth Kania-Gosche, The Conversation, 22 Sep. 2026
Officers were searching the floor when the shooter came around a corner and ambushed them from just feet away.

— WCCO Staff, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of came around

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The genetic genealogy technique involves taking crime scene evidence to develop a profile that is used to search consumer DNA databases for genetic relatives who consented to assist law enforcement.

— Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 18 Sep. 2026
And then another concession came late Sunday, when Republicans said Trump consented to a tougher ethics proposal that several key senators had demanded.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2026

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