COME (TO) Synonyms: 66 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb (1)

Definition of come (to)

as in to count (up to)

to have a total of your bill comes to $53.74

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Relevance

as in to correspond (to)

to be the same in meaning or effect it all comes to nothing in the end

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as in to occur (to)

to enter the mind of the actual name of the item didn't come to me until I was walking out of the store

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come to

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verb (2)

as in to come around

to gain consciousness again after being in a coma for months, the patient quite unexpectedly came to

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Hughes’s move to Liverpool was bound up in Edwards’ return, so his days at the club were numbered once Edwards grew disillusioned over FSG’s reluctance to commit to a multi-club ownership model.

— James Pearce, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
The cuts come to a health care system that once numbered 6,500 primary healthcare facilities and 300 public hospitals, but that already was decimated in the first year and a half of war.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of number

Verb

Armed with an engine upgrade on their cars for this event, the Ferrari drivers entered the weekend with hopes of challenging for the win at an iconic race that means so much to their team.

— Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
The prevalence of starwashing does not mean that all extraterrestrial endeavors should be scorned, said The Cool Down.

— Devika Rao, TheWeek, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of mean

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The six original moments of silence represent the times when each of the World Trade Center towers was struck, when each fell and the times corresponding to the attack of the Pentagon and crash of United Airlines Flight 93 in Pennsylvania.

— Greta Cross, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2026
Rafael Marchán, starting his first big-league game in 50 days, tried to bunt a two-strike pitch over his head and struck himself in the face with his bat for the first out.

— Matt Gelb, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of strike

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Marte remained at first base and eventually came around to score on a two-run home run from Nolan Arenado.

— Chandler Rome, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
Those days don’t come around often, so take advantage of the Hoka Labor Day Weekend sales, which include discounts on best-sellers like the Bondi 9, Clifton 10, and other shopper-favorite styles.

— Jasmine Gomez, Travel + Leisure, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of come around

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Yuan recently set out to tackle this problem by aggregating more than 3,000 hours of tactile robotic data from publicly available datasets, covering 21 sensor types and a variety of robot embodiments.

— IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 10 Sep. 2026
Trellis did the slow work of aggregating and structuring that data across 45 states and more than 3,000 courts.

— Mehron Sharq, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of aggregate

Verb

But officials did not prioritize reusability in Vulcan’s design, with no plans to reuse the rocket’s booster stage and only tentative plans to eventually recover and reuse Vulcan’s main engines.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2026
The 49ers recovered, kicked a field goal and the Rams’ last real chance for a comeback was snuffed out.

— Matt Barrows, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of recover

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