come to oneself

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Verb

come to oneself (third-person singular simple present comes to oneself, present participle coming to oneself, simple past came to oneself, past participle come to oneself)

1. (intransitive, idiomatic) To gain consciousness or self-control.
   • [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 10, page 63:

     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.

Derived terms

• (via clipping) come to