come over

present singular third person comes over · participle present coming over · past came over

1. transitiveTo affect in a sudden, unprecedented or surprising manner; to overwhelm a person's ordinarily contrary impulse.

   I apologise for my behaviour last night. I don't know what came over me.

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   It was then that a great pity came over me for this thin shadow of man; thinking rather what a fine, tall gentleman Colonel Mohune had once been, and a good soldier no doubt besides, than that he had wasted a noble estate and played traitor to the king.

   [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC

   Synonyms: overtake

2. informalTo seem; to come to express a feeling or state.

   That's why he's come over strange.

   Synonyms: come across, come off

3. intransitiveTo change one's position or location, especially to someone else's home or to an opposing side in competition or conflict.

   come over for coffee and cake

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   You'll soon come over to my way of thinking: welcome to the dark side.

   He'll come over if we guarantee him a seat on the board.

   "I think, Emmaline," he concluded, "I will ask Ántonia to come over and help you in the kitchen. She will be glad to earn something, and it will be a good time to end misunderstandings. I may as well ride over this morning and make arrangements. Do you want to go with me, Jim?" His tone told me that he had already decided for me.

   1918, Willa Sibert Cather, My Ántonia

   Synonyms: come by, drop by, stop by, come across

4. datedslangtransitiveTo deceive or get the better of; overreach.

   Some fine day we may have the country raised, and the gendarmes down upon us from Strasburg, and all owing to your pretty doll, with her cunning ways of coming over you.

   1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman