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Meaning of come apart

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

come

Pronunciation:/kʌm//kʌm/

noun

Definitions

  1. Coming, arrival; approach.

  2. Semen

  3. Female ejaculatory discharge.

verb

Definitions

  1. To move from further away to nearer to.

    Example: She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes [...]

  2. To arrive.

  3. To appear, to manifest itself.

    Example: The pain in his leg comes and goes.

  4. (with an infinitive) To begin to have an opinion or feeling.

    Example: She came to think of that country as her home.

preposition

Definitions

  1. Used to indicate a point in time at or after which a stated event or situation occurs.

    Example: Come retirement, their Social Security may turn out to be a lot less than they counted on.

interjection

Definitions

  1. An exclamation to express annoyance.

    Example: Come come! Stop crying.  Come now! You must eat it.

  2. An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.

    Example: Come come! You can do it.  Come now! It won't bite you.

come

noun

Definitions

  1. The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set off parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.

    Synonyms:comecomma-pointscratch commavirgulavirgule
  2. A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.

  3. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.

  4. A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.