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come over

(SEEM) phrasal verb with come
 
 
/kʌm/ verb (came, come)

Definition

C2 to seem to be a particular type of person: I watched the interview and felt he came over as quite arrogant.Seeming and purporting to beFaking and pretending
(Definition of come over (SEEM) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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