COME THROUGH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does come through mean? 

• COME THROUGH (verb)
  The verb COME THROUGH has 4 senses:

1. penetrate

2. succeed in reaching a real or abstract destination after overcoming problems

3. continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)

4. attain success or reach a desired goal

  Familiarity information: COME THROUGH used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COME THROUGH (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Penetrate

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

break through; come through

Context example:

The rescue team broke through the wall in the mine shaft

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

appear (come into sight or view)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Succeed in reaching a real or abstract destination after overcoming problems

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

come through; get through

Context example:

We finally got through the bureaucracy and could talk to the Minister

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

arrive at; attain; gain; hit; make; reach (reach a destination, either real or abstract)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sense 3

Meaning:

Continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

come through; make it; pull round; pull through; survive

Context example:

He survived the cancer against all odds

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

defeat; get the better of; overcome (win a victory over)

"Come through" entails doing...:

convalesce; recover; recuperate (get over an illness or shock)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

The business is going to come through

Sense 4

Meaning:

Attain success or reach a desired goal

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

bring home the bacon; come through; deliver the goods; succeed; win

Context example:

she struggled to overcome her handicap and won

"Come through" entails doing...:

assay; attempt; essay; seek; try (make an effort or attempt)

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

hit (hit the intended target or goal)

bring off; carry off; manage; negociate; pull off (be successful; achieve a goal)

clear; pass (go unchallenged; be approved)

hit the jackpot; luck out (succeed by luck)

nail; nail down; peg (succeed in obtaining a position)

make it; pass (go successfully through a test or a selection process)

run (make without a miss)

act; work (have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected)

pan out (be a success)

accomplish; achieve; attain; reach (to gain with effort)

arrive; get in; go far; make it (succeed in a big way; get to the top)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE

Sentence example:

The business is going to come through

 Context examples 

Now you will feel a blast of energy come through your window.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

He's just come through hell, an' this is the first time he's ben loose.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Or did it come through the post?

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

“My man is un peu passé, but he will come through all right,” answered my uncle.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I may say that a good many of these papers have come through me, and I need not add are thoroughly untrustworthy.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was hoping that if the paper on which he wrote was thin, some trace of it might come through upon this polished surface.

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

I had no doubt but that I should come through somehow.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He was too unfortunate even to come through a supper like anybody else.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They whispered together, and then they all three laughed—such a silvery, musical laugh, but as hard as though the sound never could have come through the softness of human lips.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

These germs come through your bloodstream from another part of your body, often your mouth.

(Endocarditis, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)