Synonyms for become
bɪˈkʌm

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1. become, go, get(verb)

   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, turn(verb)

   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. become(verb)

   come into existence

   "What becomes has duration"

   Synonyms:
   turn, suit, get, go

4. become, suit(verb)

   enhance the appearance of

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

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

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1. become(verb)

   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. 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. become(v. n.)

   Synonyms:
   be

2. become(v. n.)

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

3. become(v. a.)

   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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How to use become in a sentence?

1. Fredrick Shisia:

   It is not (only) people of Somali origin; we also have Kikuyu who have become members of the al Shabaab movement.

2. China National Nuclear Corp:

   (The successful grid connection) indicates that China has broken the monopoly of overseas nuclear technology and has officially become a country with advanced nuclear techniques.

3. Geng Guizhi:

   When students become impatient because of the long queue, I tell them to consider this a preview of Beijing's traffic jams, i tell them, you have to remain calm and patient.

4. Syed Jaffar Hussain:

   By the 30th of June, the funding will be completely exhausted, if money is not available the health situation will become extremely precarious.

5. Dominic Raab:

   The only candidate who will now do this is Boris Johnson and so I'll be supporting him to become our next Prime Minister.

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