Entry Word: become

Function: verb

Meaning: to eventually have as a state or quality <many people became sick with the flu> <with autumn the days become crisper and breezier>

Synonyms come, get, go, grow, run, turn, wax

Related Words alter, change, metamorphose, modify, mutate, transfigure, transform, transmute

Near Antonyms abide, be, continue, linger, remain, stay