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come down with

verb as in contract illness

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“Are you all right, Judge Quinzy? It sounds as if you have come down with a dreadful cold.”

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The poor workmen look exhausted, and I’ve heard that some of them have come down with rheumatism.

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After the conference in Las Vegas, he had come down with a parasite.

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Nacua said he was intent on making sure that if he did not come down with the ball, neither would Humphrey.

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Hopper, a consultant vascular surgeon who had carried out hundreds of amputation operations, told me he had come down with a mystery illness on a family camping trip which had led to sepsis and below-knee amputations of both his legs.

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