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COME THROUGH
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Penetrate
Example:
The rescue team broke through the wall in the mine shaft
Synonyms:
break through; come through
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
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
Example:
We finally got through the bureaucracy and could talk to the Minister
Synonyms:
come through; get through
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
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:
Attain success or reach a desired goal
Example:
she struggled to overcome her handicap and won
Synonyms:
bring home the bacon; come through; deliver the goods; succeed; win
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
"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
Sense 4
Meaning:
Continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)
Example:
He survived the cancer against all odds
Synonyms:
come through; make it; pull round; pull through; survive
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
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
Context examples:
The Lady of Twynham had drooped and pined for weary months, so that her face was harsher and less comely than before, yet she still hoped on, for her lord had come through so many dangers that she could scarce believe that he might be stricken down at last.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You seem to have come through hard times together, but now with the arrival of Jupiter, you are turning the corner.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
It chanced that I came through, and here I am flying my admiral’s flag; but I remember many a man as good as me who did not come through.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I will pledge my life that whoever stole my papers could only have come through the door.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I could not have come through Canterbury today without stopping, if I had been coming to anyone but her.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
My first thought was that a man who had come through a collision and rubbed shoulders with death merited more attention than I received.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
We are hedged in with difficulties, all of us, my poor old fellow; but, please God, we shall come through them all right.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Pent in, a hundred feet from earth, with a furnace raging under them and a ravening multitude all round who thirsted for their blood, it seemed indeed as though no men had ever come through such peril with their lives.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If you have been awaiting funds that a client owes you (or payment due from anyone else for that matter), it is likely to come through on or within two days of January 10.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
They vas packed all round, the folks was, but down through the middle of ’em was a passage just so as the gentry could come through to their seats, and the stage it vas of wood, as the custom then vas, and a man’s ’eight above the ’eads of the people.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
