Thesaurus / become
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It will be a busy session; and I want to see if I can't become a useful public man.
ELSTER'S FOLLYMRS. HENRY WOODMy son,” said Grabantak one evening to Chingatok, “if we are henceforth to live in peace, why not unite and become one nation?
THE GIANT OF THE NORTHR.M. BALLANTYNEYou will follow the suite of my daughter to Spain, and you will become the bosom Counsellor of the wife of your Prince?
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTERThe children of sinners become children of abominations, and they that converse near the houses of the ungodly.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSI shall soon depart, and practise no more; and my time will become my own—still my own, by no means yours.
CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANUFree discussion—never a very free thing in Russia—has now on any general scale become quite impossible.
THE SALVAGING OF CIVILISATIONH. G. (HERBERT GEORGE) WELLSFurther enlightenment (as with men) comes through grace as soon as they become beati through turning to good.
THE MEDIAEVAL MIND (VOLUME II OF II)HENRY OSBORN TAYLORHe shall pour frost as salt upon the earth: and when it freezeth, it shall become like the tops of thistles.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSThat title of Castile might become the cherished ideal in the Philippines if it were valued as I desire.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDSJOHN FOREMANSo far Murat had always held subordinate commands; his great ambition was to become the commander-in-chief of an independent army.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISONWORDS RELATED TO BECOME
- accord
- agree
- answer
- answer a need
- be proper for
- be seemly
- become
- befit
- benefit
- beseem
- check
- check out
- conform
- correspond
- cut the mustard
- do
- enhance
- fill the bill
- fit
- fit in
- flatter
- fulfill
- get by
- go
- go together
- go with
- gratify
- harmonize
- make the grade
- match
- pass muster
- please
- satisfy
- serve
- square
- suffice
- tally
- according
- agreeing
- answering
- answering a need
- becoming
- befitting
- being proper for
- being seemly
- benefiting
- beseeming
- checking
- checking out
- conforming
- corresponding
- cutting the mustard
- doing
- enhancing
- filling the bill
- fit in
- fitting
- flattering
- fulfilling
- getting by
- going
- going together
- going with
- gratifying
- harmonizing
- making the grade
- matching
- passing muster
- pleasing
- satisfying
- serving
- squaring
- sufficing
- tallying
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