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come around

No object

This verb takes no object at all.

How to say it

Stress the particle, not the verb: come AROUND. Saying “COME around” is the clearest learner tell — the verb stays light and the particle carries the beat.

Link across the gap. The final /m/ of “come” moves onto the particle and starts its syllable: “come around” is said “co-maround”. Pausing between the words is what makes phrasal verbs sound recited rather than spoken.

2 meanings

  1. 1

    To change your mind and accept something.

    • “He was against it at first, but he came around.”
    • “Give her time — she'll come around.”

    Similar: relent, be won over

  2. 2

    To regain consciousness.

    • “She came around a few minutes after the fall.”

    Similar: come to

The particle logic

around

Movement with no fixed destination, or a turn to face the other way.

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More COME phrasal verbs

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come across

To find or meet something by chance.

come up with

To produce or invent an idea or solution.

come up

(Of a topic or problem) to arise.

come back

To return to a place.

come down with

To start to have an illness, usually a minor one.

come over

To visit someone's home.

come out

To become known or be published.

come in

To enter a place.

come along

To accompany someone.

come off

To become detached.

come apart

To fall into pieces.

come between

To damage the relationship between two people.

come around — meaning, examples & how to say it