What is "come down with"

Usage examples of "come down with".

At this critical point, and despite all precautions, General Kottek himself began to come down with the sickness.

What I'd meant to do was to hire a car one day and come down with my diamond ring and buttonhole and pop the question.

Seems an explorer was grounded there, and they started one by one to come down with a joint ailment that was crippling them.

So he had just been getting used to his new situation and settling in when Steve had come down with some kind of virus just before Dad was due to take off for this mission to investigate something or other on Petaybee.

While the pads lasted, their gang didn't come down with half as many scrapes and cuts and infections as the other gangs.

When McKinnon went nuts aboard the Fools Gold and tried to attack me, I assumed that he had come down with the Plague.

Both come down with the illness but recover to assist the other sick and dying.

File and her staff met Kirk and the men who had come down with him in the recreation room.

And there were those who whispered of even stranger blood (if one could properly call it blood) and a monstrous linkage with the swart Protean spawn that had come down with Tsathoggua from elder worlds and exterior dimensions where physiology and geometry had both assumed an altogether inverse trend of development.