The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word CAME
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What does CAME mean?
CAME preposition- Used to indicate that the following event, period, or change in state occurred in the past, after a time of waiting, enduring, or anticipation
- To move from further away to nearer to.
- To arrive.
- To appear, to manifest itself.
- (with an infinitive) To begin to have an opinion or feeling.
- (with an infinitive) To do something by chance, without intending to do it.
- To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
- To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
- (with close) To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
- (with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
- (fossil word) To become, to turn out to be.
- To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
- To carry through; to succeed in.
- Happen.
- (with from or sometimes of) To have as an origin, originate.
- (of grain) To germinate.
- To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of.
- To have an orgasm, to feel the sensation of an orgasm.
- To ejaculate.
- A grooved strip of lead used to hold panes of glass together.