become
Listen:For the verb: "to become"
| Simple Past: | became |
| Past Participle: | become |
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
become/bɪˈkʌm/
▶verb (becomes, becoming; past became; past part. become)
- 1 begin to be.
■ develop into.
■ (of a person) qualify or be accepted as.
■ (become of) (in questions) happen to.
- 2 (of clothing) look well on.
■ be appropriate to (someone).
'become' also found in these Oxford entries:
abate
- absit omen
- acclimatize
- act
- adapt
- addle
- adjust
- aficionado
- air-dry
- albescent
- allergy
- anaphylaxis
- ankylose
- ape
- arise
- arrive
- ascend
- ash
- assimilate
- assort
- astray
- atrophy
- aural
- awake
- bake
- banana
- bandwagon
- banyan
- bashful
- beach
- became
- befriend
- big bud
- bioaccumulate
- blackball
- blacken
- blanch
- bloom
- blow
- blue
- blunt
- blur
- blush
- bog
- boil
- break
- broil
- brown
- buck
