Definition of "come over"

come over

verb
third-person singular simple present comes over, present participle coming over, simple past came over, past participle come over
1. (transitive) To affect in a sudden, unprecedented or surprising manner; to overwhelm a person's ordinarily contrary impulse.
  Quotations
  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.
  1898, J. Meade Falkner, chapter 4, in Moonfleet, London, Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934
2. (intransitive) To change one's position or location, especially to someone's place of residence; to come by.
  Quotations
  "I think, Emmaline," he concluded, "I will ask Ántonia to come over and help you in the kitchen. She will be glad to earn something, and it will be a good time to end misunderstandings. I may as well ride over this morning and make arrangements. Do you want to go with me, Jim?" His tone told me that he had already decided for me.
  1918, Willa Sibert Cather, My Ántonia
3. (dated, slang, transitive) To deceive or get the better of; overreach.
  Quotations
  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.
  1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman