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Come over

verb, slang

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

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

  2. 2
    communicate the intended meaning or impression wordnet
  3. 3
    To seem; to come to express a feeling or state. informal

    "That's why he's come over strange."

  4. 4
    To change one's position or location, especially to someone else's home or to an opposing side in competition or conflict. intransitive

    "come over for coffee and cake"

  5. 5
    To deceive or get the better of; overreach. dated, slang, transitive

    "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."

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