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VERB | 1 | become, go, get | Enter or assume a certain state or condition |
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2 | become, turn | Undergo a change or development | |
3 | become | Come into existence | |
4 | become, suit | Enhance the appearance of |
Sounds | bihkah'm |
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Rhymes | abolitionism, absenteeism, absolutism, and 544 more rhymes in ahm at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | Enter or assume a certain state or condition. |
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Pattern | Something is ----ing PP; Something ----s Adjective/Noun; Somebody ----s Adjective; Somebody ----s PP |
Model | John will become angry |
Synonyms | go, get |
Narrower | sober up, sober; sober up, sober; work; take effect; run; take; break; settle; come |
Broader | change state, turn |
Meaning | Undergo a change or development. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
Synonyms | turn |
Narrower | reduce, come down, boil down; suffocate, choke; nucleate; come, add up, amount |
Broader | transform, transmute, metamorphose |
Similar to | change state, turn; turn |
Meaning | Come into existence. |
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Pattern | Something ----s |
Examples | "What becomes has duration" |
Narrower | occur, come; root; form, take form, take shape, spring; originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow; arise, come up, bob up; make |
Meaning | Enhance the appearance of. |
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Pattern | Something ----s somebody |
Examples | "Mourning becomes Electra" |
Synonyms | suit |
Broader | beautify, embellish, prettify |