Usually means: Encounter or find by chance.
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  1. come across: Merriam-Webster
  2. come across, come across: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. come across: Collins English Dictionary
  4. come across: Vocabulary.com
  5. come across: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. come across: Wiktionary
  7. come across: Dictionary.com
  8. Come Across (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. come across: Rhymezone
  10. come across: Phrasal Verb Page
  11. come across: FreeDictionary.org
  12. come across: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. come across: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. come across: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. come across: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. come across: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. come across: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. come across: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (come across)

▸ verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, across.
▸ verb:  (figuratively) To change sides; to cross over to work for the opposition.
▸ verb:  (idiomatic) To give an appearance or impression; to project a certain image; to seem or appear (to be some way). [(often) with as; or (often) with like]
▸ verb:  (idiomatic, transitive) To find, usually by accident.
▸ verb:  To produce what was desired; to come up with the goods. [with with]
▸ verb:  (idiomatic, intransitive) To give in and do what is wanted or expected; to acquiesce to something.
▸ verb:  (idiomatic, intransitive) To have sex; to give in to seduction.
▸ verb:  (idiomatic, intransitive) To confess to something.

Similar:
run across, happen upon, chance upon, chance on, strike, come upon, come over, encounter, meet, discover, more...

Opposite:
miss, overlook, avoid, bypass

Phrases:
come across with, to come across, come across as, they come across, come across something, more...

Adjectives:
flat out, red-faced, stay at home, next level, frontside, cut down, each way, all the same, every second, caught stealing, very good

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Similar:
run across, happen upon, chance upon, chance on, strike, come upon, come over, encounter, meet, discover, more...

Opposite:
miss, overlook, avoid, bypass

Phrases:
come across with, to come across, come across as, they come across, come across something, the come across, more...

Adjectives:
flat out, red-faced, stay at home, next level, frontside, cut down, each way, all the same, every second, caught stealing, very good



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