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Come through

verb, slang

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Verb
  1. 1
    To come into a room or other space through a door or passageway.

    "I can see Mr Smith now. Please ask him to come through."

  2. 2
    penetrate wordnet
  3. 3
    To survive, to endure. idiomatic

    "He came through the surgery unharmed."

  4. 4
    succeed in reaching a real or abstract destination after overcoming problems wordnet
  5. 5
    To be communicated or expressed successfully.

    "The anger in her song really came through."

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  1. 6
    attain success or reach a desired goal wordnet
  2. 7
    To provide information on something; to confess. intransitive, slang
  3. 8
    continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.) wordnet
  4. 9
    To succeed; to survive and overcome struggles. idiomatic, intransitive

    "The team came through in the end and won the pennant."

  5. 10
    To not let somebody down, keep or fulfil one's word or promise; to deliver (something).

    "She really came through for us when the project was in trouble."

  6. 11
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, through.

    "This letter came through the letterbox."

Etymology

Conflation of Middle English þurȝcomyn (v. inf.), with inseparable prefix, and comen thurgh, a verb-adverb/preposition combination. Cf. German durchkommen, where the prefix is separable. Equivalent to come + through.

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