CAME ROUND Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

came round

verb

past tense of come round

as in came to

to gain consciousness again the medic waved smelling salts under his nose until he came round

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Relevance

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as in agreed

to give or express one's approval (as to a proposal) she's cool to the idea right now, but sooner or later she'll come round

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Most of the complex's buildings were razed in the 1980s, but a five-story, red-brick structure that came to be known as the Kay Beard Building still stands and is home to Eloise Asylum.

— CBS News, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026
Funding for Platte County police came to a heated front in a county commission meeting earlier this year where Sheriff Erik Holland and Prosecuting Attorney Erik Zahnd vehemently argued that the law enforcement budget was too low.

— Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 27 Oct. 2026

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For decades, Democrats and Republicans alike have agreed that the terrorists in Tehran, who have been killing Americans for 47 years, cannot be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 27 Oct. 2026
Moscow and Beijing last week have agreed to expand freight traffic along Arctic shipping corridors, increase services between their ports and deepen cooperation on building polar vessels.

— Lee Ying Shan,Matthew Tan, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of agreed

Verb

Palacios scored and when DeLauter allowed the ball under his glove, Walls came around from second.

— Joe Reedy, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
On a candlelit Wednesday evening in Chinatown, the 2026 Image Makers came around an open-air table to celebrate each other.

— Ashley SP, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of came around

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Eli Phillip Rodriguez, 38 Frisco Police Department Rodriguez denied having child pornography on his phone and consented to a search, providing the officer with his passcode.

— S.E. Jenkins, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
In an exchange captured by the officer’s body camera footage, one school administrator said that the girl’s mother had consented to the use of handcuffs on her daughter.

— Rosie Cima, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2026

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