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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To grow or come to be.
  • intransitive verb To be appropriate or suitable to.
  • intransitive verb To show to advantage; look good with.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To come; arrive; betake one's self; go.
  • To come about; come into being; pass from non-existence; arise.
  • To change or pass from one state of existence to another; come to be something different; come or grow to be: as, the boy rapidly becomes the man.
  • To be fit or proper; be decorous or praiseworthy.
  • To be the fate of; be the end of; be the final or subsequent condition: after what: as, what will become of our commerce? what will become of us? It applies to place as well as condition: What has become of my friend? that is, where is he? as well as, what is his condition?
  • To suit or be suitable to; be congruous with; befit; accord with in character or circumstances; be worthy of or proper to: rarely said of persons.
  • To befit in appearance; suit esthetically; grace or adorn.
  • [Formerly becomed was sometimes used as the past participle.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional matter, or a new character.
  • intransitive verb obsolete To come; to get.
  • intransitive verb to be the present state or place of; to be the fate of; to be the end of; to be the final or subsequent condition of.
  • transitive verb To suit or be suitable to; to be congruous with; to befit; to accord with, in character or circumstances; to be worthy of, or proper for; to cause to appear well; -- said of persons and things.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb enhance the appearance of
  • verb undergo a change or development
  • verb enter or assume a certain state or condition
  • verb come into existence

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English bicomen, from Old English becuman; see gwā- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English becomen, bicumen, from Old English becuman ("to come, approach, arrive, enter, meet with, fall in with; happen, befall; befit"), from Proto-Germanic *bikwemanan (“to come around, come about, come across, come by”), equivalent to be- (“about, around”) +‎ come. Cognate with Scots becum ("to come, arrive, reach a destination"), North Frisian bekommen, bykommen ("to come by, obtain, receive"), West Frisian bikomme ("to come by, obtain, receive"), Dutch bekomen ("to come by, obtain, receive"), German bekommen ("to get, receive, obtain"), Swedish bekomma ("to receive, concern"), Gothic  (bikwiman, "to come upon one, befall"). Sense of "befit, suit" due to influence from Middle English cweme, icweme, see queem.

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synonyms (83)

Words with the same meaning

  1. adorn
  2. agree with
  3. alter into
  4. arise
  5. assimilate to
  6. be born
  7. be bound
  8. be changed
  9. be converted into
  10. be obligated
  11. be obliged
  12. become of
  13. befit
  14. behoove
  15. beseem
  16. break out
  17. bring to
  18. burst forth
  19. change
  20. change into
  21. change over
  22. come
  23. come forth
  24. come of
  25. come out
  26. come over
  27. come round to
  28. come to be
  29. convert
  30. crop up
  31. do over
  32. drop
  33. enhance
  34. erupt
  35. evolve into
  36. fall
  37. fall into
  38. fit
  39. get
  40. get to be
  41. go
  42. go with
  43. grace
  44. grow
  45. have origin
  46. irrupt
  47. issue
  48. issue forth
  49. lapse into
  50. make
  51. make over
  52. melt into
  53. mount
  54. naturalize
  55. open into
  56. originate
  57. owe it to
  58. pass into
  59. reconvert
  60. reduce to
  61. render
  62. resolve into
  63. reverse
  64. ripen into
  65. rise
  66. run
  67. run into
  68. settle into
  69. shift
  70. shift into
  71. soar
  72. spring up
  73. suit
  74. switch
  75. switch over
  76. take birth
  77. take rise
  78. transform
  79. turn
  80. turn back
  81. turn into
  82. turn to
  83. wax

hypernyms (4)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. beautify
  2. embellish
  3. fancify
  4. prettify

hyponyms (17)

Words more specific or concrete

  1. arise
  2. bob up
  3. come
  4. come up
  5. develop
  6. form
  7. grow
  8. make
  9. occur
  10. originate
  11. rise
  12. root
  13. spring
  14. spring up
  15. take form
  16. take shape
  17. uprise

same context (23)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. advise
  2. agree
  3. break
  4. confin
  5. correct
  6. either
  7. farm
  8. herself
  9. improv
  10. improve
  11. lost
  12. outgo
  13. please
  14. prevent
  15. put
  16. sad
  17. strive
  18. taken
  19. theirs
  20. understand
  21. universal
  22. whistle
  23. written

variants (1)

Variants

  1. became

forms (3)

Forms

  1. became
  2. becomes
  3. becoming

cross-references (3)

Cross-references

  1. beautify
  2. grace
  3. to become of

rhymes (42)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Brum
  2. Krum
  3. Mum
  4. alum
  5. brum
  6. bum
  7. chum
  8. clum
  9. come
  10. crum
  11. crumb
  12. cum
  13. drum
  14. dum
  15. dumb
  16. from
  17. frum
  18. glum
  19. grum
  20. gum
  21. hum
  22. lum
  23. mum
  24. mumm
  25. mumme
  26. numb
  27. plum
  28. plumb
  29. rum
  30. scum
  31. slum
  32. some
  33. strum
  34. stum
  35. succumb
  36. sum
  37. swum
  38. thum
  39. thumb
  40. um
  41. umm
  42. yum

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