come oververb

• 1

  To affect in a sudden, unprecedented or surprising manner; to overwhelm a person's ordinarily contrary impulse.

  • I apologise for my behaviour last night. I don't know what came over me.
  • It was then that a great pity came over me for this thin shadow of man; thinking rather what a fine, tall gentleman Colonel Mohune had once been, and a good soldier no doubt besides, than that he had wasted a noble estate and played traitor to the king.
• 2

  informalTo seem; to come to express a feeling or state.

  • That's why he's come over strange.
• 3

  To change one's position or location, especially to someone else's home or to an opposing side in competition or conflict.

  • come over for coffee and cake
  • You'll soon come over to my way of thinking: welcome to the dark side.
• 4

  datedslangTo deceive or get the better of; overreach.

  • Some fine day we may have the country raised, and the gendarmes down upon us from Strasburg, and all owing to your pretty doll, with her cunning ways of coming over you.