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Come through

verb

Penetrate. Synonym: break through. "The rescue team broke through the wall in the mine shaft"

Succeed in reaching a real or abstract destination after overcoming problems. Synonym: get through.

Continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.). Synonyms: make it, pull round, pull through, survive. Antonym: succumb.

Attain success or reach a desired goal. Synonyms: bring home the bacon, deliver the goods, succeed, win. "We succeeded in getting tickets to the show" , "She struggled to overcome her handicap and won" Antonym: fail.

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"Come through" Quotes from Famous Books

... a quick turn up and down the room. "God in Heaven, Sir John! has Beatrix come through this without injury ...

— Beatrix of Clare • John Reed Scott

... brightened all over with a responsive smile. "Did you come through the woods?" she asked. ...

— Tiverton Tales • Alice Brown

... poor or ignorant in a Republic that it does not know its own suffering and needs better than the wealthy and educated classes. By the rule of justice it has the same right precisely to give them legal expression. That expression is bound to come, and it is wisest for it to come through the ballot box than through mobs and violence born of a ...

— Shadow and Light - An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century • Mifflin Wistar Gibbs

... Powder was ordered from the forts on the Delaware. Agents were sent to New Haven to purchase provisions. As it was expected that the fleet would come through the Sound, agents were stationed along the shore, to transmit the tidings of its approach, so soon as the sails should be seen in the distant horizon. Several vessels on the point of sailing with supplies ...

— Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam • John S. C. Abbott

... to you?" asked Mrs. Bunker, as she saw the two boys come through the garden up to Grandma Bell's house. "Did you ...

— Six Little Bunkers at Grandma Bell's • Laura Lee Hope

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