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COME FORWARD
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make oneself visible; take action
Example:
Young people should step to the fore and help their peers
Synonyms:
come forward; come out; come to the fore; step forward; step to the fore; step up
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "come forward" is one way to...):
act; move (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action))
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Context examples:
I told you that I did not wonder at your attachment; that considering the service he had rendered you, it was extremely natural:—and you agreed to it, expressing yourself very warmly as to your sense of that service, and mentioning even what your sensations had been in seeing him come forward to your rescue.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night—of the general state of mind in which I had indulged for nearly a fortnight past; Reason having come forward and told, in her own quiet way a plain, unvarnished tale, showing how I had rejected the real, and rabidly devoured the ideal;—I pronounced judgment to this effect:—That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
