come round

English

Etymology

From come + round.

Verb

come round (third-person singular simple present comes round, present participle coming round, simple past came round, past participle come round)

1. To change direction.
2. To change one's opinion to a prevailing one.

   I'll explain it again, and maybe he'll come round to my way of thinking.

   He's a reasonable man. I knew he'd come round eventually.

3. To return to a former condition.
   1. To recover consciousness, to come to

      After the blow to my head, I took a while to come round.

      • 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:

        Signalman Bridges was killed by the blast, as was fireman Nightall. Amazingly, driver Gimbert came round some 200 yards away, on the grass outside the Station Hotel where he had been flung.

   2. To cease anger or hostility.
4. To visit someone's home or other regular place.

   Would you like to come round for dinner tonight?

   What day does the garbage man come round?

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.

Synonyms

• (change direction): put about, turn around, wheel
• (change opinion to a prevailing one): give way; See also Thesaurus:accede
• (recover consciousness): come to, come to one's senses, wake up
• (cease hostility): calm down, cease fire, pull in one's horns
• (visit someone's home): call on

Related terms

• come around

Translations

to change direction

• German: umdrehen (de), wenden (de), umkehren (de)

to change one's opinion

• French: se raviser (fr)
• German: einlenken (de), umschwenken (de), zu der Einsicht gelangen

to return to a former condition

• German: wiederkommen (de), zurückkommen (de), wieder da sein, wieder der / die Alte sein

to recover consciousness

• German: zu sich kommen (de), zu Bewusstsein kommen, wieder ansprechbar sein

to cease anger or hostility

• German: zur Vernunft kommen, Vernunft annehmen, zur Besinnung kommen

to visit someone

• French: passer (fr)
• German: vorbeikommen (de), vorbeischauen (de)