Definitions for becomes

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becomes be·come

Spelling: [bih-kuhm]

IPA: /bɪˈkʌm/

Becomes is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 136 anagrams from letters in becomes (bceemos).

Definitions for becomes

Idioms

1. become of, to happen to; be the fate of:

verb (used with object)

1. to be attractive on; befit in appearance; look well on:
2. to be suitable or necessary to the dignity, situation, or responsibility of:

verb (used without object)

1. to come, change, or grow to be (as specified):
2. to come into being.

Origin of becomes

before 900; Middle English becumen, Old English becuman to come about, happen; cognate with Dutch bekomen, German bekommen, Gothic biqiman. See be-, Examples for becomes

Perhaps it is in this last that it becomes our most pernicious enemy.

I think if you keep trying to do things the same way it becomes diminishing returns.

In her struggle to find her daughter, Esther becomes one of the founders of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo.

So working with the militants in order to deliver aid “becomes a requirement,” she said.

It now becomes my aim today to lay siege to this town and capture it.

King Lear becomes Lear texting “okay who wants a kingdom,” to which Goneril replies “me me I do.”

The messenger, too, who lends himself to her humour now becomes a proper man.

Clerk or no, you have acted this day as becomes a true knight.

Selma becomes a biopic in which the hero shines while those who worked beside him are overlooked or relegated to the sidelines.

Otherwise the chance of over-shooting--always great--becomes prohibitive.