come round

verb

1. to be restored to life or consciousness
2. to change or modify one's mind or opinion

Idioms and Phrases

see come around .

Example Sentences

When I came round I felt extremely lucky to be alive - but the euphoria I had experienced after brain surgery was absent.

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"When I was really little I remember friends being like, 'my mum says that we're not allowed to play with you because you're a hippie and you can't come round to our house'," she said.

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Left-armer Leach toyed with his angles to come round the wicket to left-hander Masood and was rewarded with a return catch.

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The city authorities have come round to agreeing that the site can be developed for residential purposes, but it calls the current tenants illegal occupiers and says they need to leave before the development starts.

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It left him him in a medically-induced coma, but when he eventually came round, he had developed Capgras delusion, meaning he was unable to recognise her.

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Related Words

• mend
• overcome
• survive