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  2. If an idea or emotion comes across in writing, film, music, or when someone is speaking, it is expressed clearly and people notice it: What comes across in his later poetry is a great sense of sadness. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Easy to understand. (as) clear as day idiom.

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      COME ACROSS meaning: 1. to behave in a way that makes people...

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  3. The meaning of COME ACROSS is to give over or furnish something demanded; especially : to pay over money. How to use come across in a sentence.

  4. [no passive] to meet or find somebody/something by chance. I came across children sleeping under bridges. She came across some old photographs in a drawer. come across (with something) [no passive] to provide or supply something when you need it. I hoped she'd come across with some more information.

  5. come across (with something) to deliver what is expected of one. You had better come across with what you owe me. You owe me money, and I wish you would come across. See also: across, come. come across someone or something.

  6. come across. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English come across phrasal verb 1 come across somebody/something to meet, find, or discover someone or something by chance I came across an old diary in her desk. I’ve never come across anyone quite like her before.

  7. If someone or what they are saying comes across in a particular way, they make that impression on people who meet them or are listening to them.

  8. Come across definition: to meet or find by accident. See examples of COME ACROSS used in a sentence.