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Meaning: (intransitive,idiomatic)To gainconsciousnessorself-control.[1898],J[ohn] Meade Falkner,Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.:Jonathan Cape, published1934,→OCLC:When Icame to myselfI 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, volume10, page63:The patient invariably falls down in a swoon and is carried like dead to his hammock, where he is tightly lashed with cords. As theycome to themselves, they writhe in agony, so that their hammocks rock violently to and fro.
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