intransitive. With noun, adjective, or other complement: to become or come to be (what is specified by the complement); to turn into (something…

With noun or adjective complement: to become or come to be (what is expressed by the complement). intransitive. In any tense. Obsolete.

To pass into a certain state or condition (often implying deterioration). intransitive. With adjective or prepositional phrase as complement. To…

To come to be (something or in some state). with to, into. Obsolete.

intransitive. With adjective as complement. To get to be in a specified condition, to become. Formerly also with participial verb, prepositional…

With adjective complement. Without the idea of growth or increase: To become, turn. (Sometimes used with reference to a sudden or immediate change.)

To turn from one bodily state, belief, etc., to another. Obsolete.

intransitive. To become, turn to.

transitive. To bring to a specified condition (frequently death); to reduce to. Frequently in to make out of the way (also to make hence): to…

To pass into or come to be in a specified state or condition, typically one which is unfavourable (as… intransitive. With adjectival or adverbial…

with complement. To grow or become (something). Obsolete.

To become or come to be by degrees, sometimes with inclusion of the literal sense of increase of… with adjective or (archaic) n. complement.

In immaterial sense: To go, pass (into a condition). Obsolete.

figurative. = run, v. 55, 63, 62.

intransitive. To come or pass into (also †unto) a state or condition; (formerly sometimes) spec. to fall into a mental or physical disorder.

To change so as to be ——, to become ——. intransitive. With adjective complement.

intransitive. With in or into. To pass or fall into (a particular state). Obsolete.

Scottish. intransitive. To grow, develop; to wax. Obsolete.

intransitive. Usually with into (formerly also †to). Of a material thing: to undergo dissolution or separation into constituent parts or…

intransitive. To make one's way into (business, favour, office, etc.); to succeed in obtaining; to gain admittance to (an educational establishment).

To become, or succeed in becoming; to make oneself; to grow (with comparatives); to come to be. intransitive. With adjective as complement. Also…

intransitive. With complement. To come to be, become (something), grow to be. Obsolete.

intransitive. Frequently with to or complement. In extended use: to advance to some status or function; to grow or develop into, to become (what…

with complement. To become as it were by chance, to grow. Obsolete.

Of a person or thing: To fall or pass involuntarily or mechanically into some condition.

In a Latin sense: To ‘turn out’ to be. Obsolete.

figurative. Used (like Latin evadere) for: To ‘turn out’, become. Obsolete.

intransitive. With complement. To come to be (and be found or known to be); to become ultimately.

intransitive or absol. with prepositions. to gain into: to grow into, to come to be.

intransitive. To undergo a change, to be transformed.

To pass into a certain state. Also with off.