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Meaning of come to oneself | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

To gain consciousness or self-control.

idiomatic, intransitive

Examples

“When I came to myself I was lying, not in the outer blackness of the Mohune vault, not on a floor of sand; but in a bed of sweet clean⟳ linen, and in a little whitewashed room, through the window of which the spring⟳ sunlight streamed.”
“The patient invariably falls down in a swoon and is carried like⟳ dead to his hammock, where he is tightly lashed with cords. As they come⟳ to themselves, they writhe in agony, so that their hammocks rock violently to and fro.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

come to order come to pass come to power come to rest come to someone's aid come to someone's rescue

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