come round

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

1. To change direction.

   Synonyms: put about, turn around, wheel

2. To change one's opinion to a prevailing one.

   He's a reasonable man. I knew he'd come round eventually.

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   I'll explain it again, and maybe he'll come round to my way of thinking.

   Synonyms: give way

3. To return to a former condition.
   1. To recover consciousness, to come to

      After the blow to my head, I took a while to come round.

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      Signalman Bridges was killed by the blast, as was fireman Nightall. Amazingly, driver Gimbert came round some 200 yards away, on the grass outside the Station Hotel where he had been flung.

      2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43

      Synonyms: come to, come to one's senses, wake up

   2. To cease anger or hostility.

      Synonyms: calm down, cease fire, pull in one's horns

4. To visit someone's home or other regular place.

   What day does the garbage man come round?

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   Would you like to come round for dinner tonight?

   That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.

   1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

   Synonyms: call on