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UK
/bɪkˈʌm/
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[ US /bɪˈkəm/ ]
[ US /bɪˈkəm/ ]
VERB
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enhance the appearance of
Mourning becomes Electra
This behavior doesn't suit you! -
come into existence
What becomes has duration -
undergo a change or development
He turned traitor
Her former friend became her worst enemy
The water turned into ice -
enter or assume a certain state or condition
He became annoyed when he heard the bad news
her face went red with anger
Get going!
She went into ecstasy
It must be getting more serious
How To Use become In A Sentence
- The only seriously bad bit is that you become less agile and less strong. Times, Sunday Times
- Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails. VIII. The Lordly Buffalo
- It is by these special touches that the author infuses the books with the spirit of humanity, without which a fantasy becomes an empty fancy.
- Once tawhid is accepted as the first axiom of thought, the goal of life becomes bridging the gap between the asserter and the asserted. William C. Chittick, Ph.D.: Islam and the Goal of Love
- The conference has become a bit of a squeeze this year. Times, Sunday Times
- Which drugs become blockbusters is in many respects a lottery. Times, Sunday Times
- You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. Mahatma Gandhi
- Brunhild, a mischievous, strong-minded goldfish (the voice of Noah Cyrus, Miley's younger sister), is determined to become a little girl when she's rescued from a jar and befriended by Sosuke (the voice of Frankie Jonas, the Jonas Brothers 'kid brother), a plucky, self-reliant 5-year-old. No Time's Right for 'Traveler's Wife'
- Email and Net abuse at work have become the number one reason why UK employees face the sack, according to a survey out today.
- The opposite change occurs in what are termed fastigiate varieties, where the branches, in place of assuming more or less of a horizontal direction, become erect and nearly parallel with the main stem as in the Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants