come down with
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Animals that catch it typically come down with a high temperature before developing blisters, usually around the mouth or feet.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2025
While adults catch on average between three to four colds a year, kids can come down with four or more every year.
From Salon • Dec. 18, 2024
More than 3 years earlier, in the summer of 2020, Hayden had come down with COVID-19 while visiting family in Colorado.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 11, 2024
The suspicion dates back as far as the early 2000s, when a Department of Health study found 119 firefighters at the station had come down with some form of cancer between 1975 and 2003.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 5, 2024
“If they do, I’m sure they all come down with pneumonia. Now let’s see: What’ll we have for supper?”
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
