Synonyms for become
bɪˈkʌmbe·come

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1. becomeverb

   Synonyms:
   befit, suit

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1. become

   Make is essentially causative; to the idea of cause all its various senses may be traced (compare synonyms for CAUSE). To make is to cause to exist, or to cause to exist in a certain form or in certain relations; the word thus includes the idea of create, as in Gen. i, 31, "And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." Make includes also the idea of compose, constitute; as, the parts make up the whole. Similarly, to cause a voluntary agent to do a certain act is to make him do it, or compel him to do it, compel fixing the attention more on the process, make on the accomplished fact. Compare COMPEL; DO; INFLUENCE; (make better) AMEND; (make haste) QUICKEN; (make known) ANNOUNCE; AVOW; CONFESS; (make prisoner) ARREST; (make up) ADD; (make void) CANCEL.

   See synonyms for ABOLISH; BREAK; DEMOLISH.

   Synonyms:
   bring about, bring into being, bring to pass, cause, compel, compose, constitute, constrain, construct, create, do, effect, establish, execute, fabricate, fashion, force, frame, get, make, make out, make up, manufacture, occasion, perform, reach, render, require, shape

   Preposition:
   Make of, out of, or from certain materials, into a certain form, for a certain purpose or person; made with hands, by hand; made by a prisoner, with a jack-knife.

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1. become

   Synonyms:
   befit, grace, beseem, behove

   Antonyms:
   misbeseem, misfit, misbecome, disgrace

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1. become, go, getverb

   enter or assume a certain state or condition

   "He became annoyed when he heard the bad news"; "It must be getting more serious"; "her face went red with anger"; "She went into ecstasy"; "Get going!"

   Synonyms:
   function, take, perish, give way, mystify, hold out, run, endure, lead, experience, give out, conk out, operate, have, travel, last, die, sustain, grow, perplex, receive, go away, scram, bring forth, go, stimulate, sire, rifle, drive, engender, run low, fix, pay back, plump, suffer, stick, break, pass away, set about, drop dead, get down, incur, draw, catch, contract, blend in, run short, pop off, get going, locomote, dumbfound, beat, set out, live, cash in one's chips, kick the bucket, arrest, blend, develop, fetch, suit, bring, bewilder, mother, induce, buzz off, make, belong, let, obtain, beget, give-up the ghost, go bad, survive, get, generate, turn, expire, find, vex, baffle, live on, start out, convey, croak, capture, move, choke, aim, fit, sound, stupefy, flummox, gravel, begin, extend, start, depart, puzzle, father, decease, get under one's skin, pass, proceed, break down, arrive, exit, conk, produce, fail, buy the farm, hold up, acquire, come, snuff it, pay off, pose, bugger off, cause, amaze, work, nonplus, commence

2. become, turnverb

   undergo a change or development

   "The water turned into ice"; "Her former friend became her worst enemy"; "He turned traitor"

   Synonyms:
   turn, move around, grow, suit, change by reversal, turn over, twist, bend, wrick, sour, call on, plow, release, reverse, rick, get, sprain, deform, ferment, flex, work, plough, go, change state, wrench

3. becomeverb

   come into existence

   "What becomes has duration"

   Synonyms:
   turn, suit, get, go

4. become, suitverb

   enhance the appearance of

   "Mourning becomes Electra"; "This behavior doesn't suit you!"

   Synonyms:
   get, accommodate, fit, suit, beseem, befit, go, turn

Matched Categories

1. • Embellish
   • Transform
   • Turn

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1. hit (verb)

   colloquial, informal

   by the time i hit thirty, i was about three hundred pounds

   Submitted by erhnice on July 29, 2019  

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1. becomeverb

   Synonyms:
   be

2. becomeverb

   Synonyms:
   change to, be changed to, be converted into, get to be, come to be

3. becomeverb

   Synonyms:
   suit, befit, be suitable to, be proper for, be appropriate to

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1. List of paraphrases for "become":

   becoming, be, became, becomes, been, fate, are, make, gone, gotten

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1. J. Robert Oppenheimer:

   I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.N.B.

2. Patrick Ireland:

   You're a victim only if you allow yourself to become one.

3. Moses Ben Maimon Maimonides:

   Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.

4. Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi:

   Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

5. Mike Pompeo:

   For too long, America has allowed the free trade framework to become distorted to the advantages of countries other than the United States, remember that our diplomacy puts American workers and American businesses first.