From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcome over phrasal verb1 a) VISITif someone comes over, they visit you at your house Do you want to come over on Friday evening? b) TRAVELif someone comes over, they come to the country where you are to/from When did your family first come over to America?2 come over somebodyFEEL HAPPY/FRIGHTENED/BORED ETC if a strong feeling comes over you, you suddenly experience it A wave of sleepiness came over me. I’m sorry about that – I don’t know what came over me (=I do not know why I behaved in that way).3 if an idea comes over well, people can understand it easily I thought that the points he was making came over quite clearly.4 if someone comes over in a particular way, they seem to have particular qualities SYN come across He didn’t come over very well (=seem to have good qualities) in the interview. as She comes over as a very efficient businesswoman.5 come over (all) shy/nervous etcBECOME informal to suddenly become very shy, nervous etc → come→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
come to/from• I came over to give him a hug and noticed a cigarette still burning in the ashtray on the desk.• Numbers of his opponents had been captured or come over to him.• Her dad came over from Italy when he was in his twenties.• He came over to my apartment only once.• Lord Henry came over to tell Dorian that the man was dead.• The kids keep calling for Tfo Vic to come over to the lunch table they are not allowed to leave.• People were coming over to us out of shops, pleading to be included in my trials.• Pipkin, who looked round for Hazel and then came over to wait beside him.come as• When Mr Major waxes philosophical, he comes over as a strange mix of nostalgia and modernism.• Alfred Molina's Shannon comes over as an assemblage of mannerisms rather than a man whose behaviour arises from dissipation and anguish.• The play comes over as both an astute social comedy and a door-slamming farce.• Don't think you come over as logical and rational.• He comes over as what he might well be - a paid-up member, if not a capo, in the Mafia. 