Arrive vs Comeback - What's the difference?
arrive | comeback |
(copulative) To reach; to get to a certain place.
* {{quote-magazine, title=No hiding place
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To obtain a level of success or fame.
* 2002 , Donald Cole, Immigrant City: Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845-1921 (page 58)
To come; said of time.
To happen or occur.
* Waller
(archaic) To reach; to come to.
* Milton
* Shakespeare
* Tennyson
(obsolete) To bring to shore.
* Chapman
A return (e.g. to popularity, success, etc.) after an extended period of obscurity.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=February 5
, author=Paul Fletcher
, title=Newcastle 4 - 4 Arsenal
, work=BBC
* {{quote-news
, year=2013
, date=December 6
, author= alim17
, title=Girls' Generation rumored to make a comeback in early 2014!
, work=allkpop.com
A retort or answer, particularly a quick or clever one.
As a verb arrive
is .As a noun comeback is
comeback.arrive
English
Verb
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- Evidence that the Irish had arrived socially was the abrupt decline in the number of newspaper articles accusing them of brawling and other crimes.
- The time has arrived for us to depart.
- Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives .
- Ere he arrive the happy isle.
- Ere we could arrive the point proposed.
- Arrive at last the blessed goal.
- and made the sea-trod ship arrive them
Usage notes
* Additional, nonstandard, and uncommon past tense and past participle are, respectively, arrove and arriven, likely formed by analogy to verbs like drove and driven.Antonyms
* departcomeback
English
Noun
(en noun)- That fad went out with the eighties, but I think it's making a comeback .
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- I wish I had thought of a quick comeback for his comment.