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come at

To get to, especially with effort or difficulty.
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His precise meaning was not easy to come at.

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Submitted on July 07, 2010

Additional definitions for 'come at':

come atUsed other than as an idiom: see come, at.
come atTo come to; to attend.
come atTo enter into sexual relations with.
come atTo attack, to harass.
come atTo accept (a situation); to agree to do; to try.
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