come about

  • 1come about — {v.} To take place; happen, occur. * /Sometimes it is hard to tell how a quarrel comes about./ * /When John woke up he was in the hospital, but he didn t know how that had come about./ …

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  • 2come about — {v.} To take place; happen, occur. * /Sometimes it is hard to tell how a quarrel comes about./ * /When John woke up he was in the hospital, but he didn t know how that had come about./ …

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  • 3come about — [v] happen arise, befall, come to pass, occur, result, take place, transpire; concept 701 …

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  • 4come about — ► come about 1) happen; take place. 2) (of a ship) change direction. Main Entry: ↑come …

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  • 5come about — index arise (occur), occur (happen) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 6come about — phrasal verb [intransitive] Word forms come about : present tense I/you/we/they come about he/she/it comes about present participle coming about past tense came about past participle come about 1) to happen, especially by chance come about… …

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  • 7come about — verb come to pass (Freq. 4) What is happening? The meeting took place off without an incidence Nothing occurred that seemed important • Syn: ↑happen, ↑hap, ↑go on, ↑pass off …

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  • 8come about — PHRASAL VERB When you say how or when something came about, you say how or when it happened. [V P through n] Any possible solution to the Irish question can only come about through dialogue... [V P] That came about when we went to Glastonbury… …

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  • 9come about — verb a) To come to pass; to develop; to occur; to take place; to happen. We have to ask, how did this come about? b) …

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  • 10come\ about — v To take place; happen, occur. Sometimes it is hard to tell how a quarrel comes about. When John woke up he was in the hospital, but he didn t know how that had come about …

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