come to terms with
B1CEFR level
15/100Rarity: common
NeutralRegister
General phrase
To gradually accept a difficult or unwelcome situation.
It took her a long time to come to terms with the loss of her job.
Medicine phrase
To gradually accept and adjust to a difficult reality such as a serious diagnosis.
It will take time to come to terms with the diagnosis, and that's completely normal.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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