come home verb4 •To return to one's house, or to any place of origin. •To touch a person's interests or feelings closely; to be fully understood or realised.It was only when I heard the police sirens that the seriousness of what I had done came home to me.It finally came home to me that I was wrong. •To achieve success (typically by winning an international competition) in the country in which the sport was invented. •To drag or slip through the ground. formscame home · coming home · comes home