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COME FORTH
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Come out of
Example:
The words seemed to come out by themselves
Synonyms:
come forth; come out; egress; emerge; go forth; issue
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come forth"):
pop out (come out suddenly or forcefully)
radiate (issue or emerge in rays or waves)
leak (enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure)
escape (issue or leak, as from a small opening)
fall (come out; issue)
debouch (pass out or emerge; especially of rivers)
come out; fall out (come off)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 2
Meaning:
Happen or occur as a result of something
Synonyms:
come forth; emerge
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "come forth" is one way to...):
arise; develop; grow; originate; rise; spring up; uprise (come into existence; take on form or shape)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come forth"):
break (come forth or begin from a state of latency)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Context examples:
They camp before a great city, and the base burghers come forth with the keys, and then they make great spoil; or, if it please them better, they take so many horse-loads of silver as a composition; and so they journey on from state to state, rich and free and feared by all.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I would have them come forth from their lonely places, mix with the borel folks, feel the pains and the pleasures, the cares and the rewards, the temptings and the stirrings of the common people.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
