Come-at Definition

verb

Used other than as an idiom: see come,‎ at.

The cleaner will come at 4 o'clock.
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To get to, especially with effort or difficulty.
His precise meaning was not easy to come at.
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To attack, to harass.

As I backed away, he came at me with a knife.
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(Australia, New Zealand, slang) To accept (a situation); to agree to do; to try.
Nah, mate – I′m not going to come at that again. Too risky.
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Come-at Sentence Examples

  • It was as if everything was coming to a head, and it couldn't have come at a worse time.

  • I respected Andre, but now that he.s gone, you.re lucky I agreed to come at all.

  • Napoleon's opportunity to finish the battle had come at last.

  • The responsories are similar in form to the antiphons, but come at the end of the psalm, being originally the reply of the choir or congregation to the precentor who recited the psalm.

  • A carefully constructed mound of dried dung provides fuel that would also once have come at the expense of local trees.

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Words Starting With

CCOCOM

Words Ending With

TAT

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Words Starting With C and Ending With T

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