COME INTO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does come into mean? 

• COME INTO (verb)
  The verb COME INTO has 1 sense:

1. obtain, especially accidentally

  Familiarity information: COME INTO used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COME INTO (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Obtain, especially accidentally

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

come by; come into

Hypernyms (to "come into" is one way to...):

acquire; get (come into the possession of something concrete or abstract)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come into"):

hit; stumble (encounter by chance)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

He ceased rocking for a space and forgot to groan, while a look of intelligence seemed to come into his face.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

People can get the disease if they breathe infected air or come into contact with rodents or their urine or droppings.

(Hantavirus Infections, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

I saw his face grow hard and the merciless glitter come into his eyes.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A light microscopic technique in which the light that does not come into contact with the structures or details of interest is subtracted from the ocular image.

(Dark Field Microscopy, NCI Thesaurus)

We have only to make sure that the ship cannot come into port between sunset and sunrise without our being warned, and we shall be safe.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

His transient masters since he had come into the Northland had bred in him a fear that no master could be permanent.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Systems with giant planets in unstable orbits are the most efficient at ejecting these smaller bodies because as the giants shift around, they come into contact with more material.

(New Study Shows What Interstellar Visitor ‘Oumuamua Can Teach Us, NASA)

To come into possession of something.

(Obtain, NCI Thesaurus)

I got his leave to come into town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The inevitable variety in customs, attitudes, practices, and behaviors that exists among groups of individuals from different ethnic, racial, or national backgrounds who come into contact within a social unit, organization, or population.

(Cultural Diversity, NCI Thesaurus)