becomeverb
uk/bɪˈkʌm/us/bɪˈkʌm/became, becomebecome verb (BE)
A2 [ L ] to start to be:
I was becoming increasingly suspicious of his motives.
It was becoming cold, so we lit the fire.
After giving up smoking, he became fat and irritable.
Margaret Thatcher became the UK's first woman prime minister in 1979.
He has just become a father.
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- Of the four million people who have become vegetarians in Britain, nearly two-thirds are women.
- When did you become a US citizen?
- People can become infected after eating raw or undercooked meat.
- He started his working life as an engineer but later became a teacher.
- Prince Juan Carlos of Spain became king in 1975.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Starting and beginning
- be in the first flush of idiom
- begin
- branch out
- break into sth
- bring
- export
- go ahead
- ground
- initiator
- instate
- introduce
- kick
- kick in
- kick-start
- strike
- touch sth off
- train
- trigger
- wade in
- weave
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become verb (SUIT)
[ T ] old-fashioned to cause someone to look attractive, or to be suitable for someone:
That colour really becomes you.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Attracting and tempting
- affinity
- allure
- arrest
- attract
- attraction
- charm
- charm the pants off sb idiom
- counterattraction
- crowd-puller
- cute
- disarm
- glitter
- magnet
- pulling power
- reel
- reel sb/sth in
- seduce
- seduction
- seductive
- spell
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Being suitable or unsuitable
Phrasal verb(s)
become of sb/sth