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Becoming   /bɪkˈəmɪŋ/   Listen
Becoming

adjective
1.
According with custom or propriety.  Synonyms: comely, comme il faut, decent, decorous, seemly.  "Comely behavior" , "It is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be constantly asking for money" , "A decent burial" , "Seemly behavior"
2.
Displaying or setting off to best advantage.  "A becoming portrait"


Become

verb
(past became; past part. become; pres. part. becoming)
1.
Enter or assume a certain state or condition.  Synonyms: get, go.  "It must be getting more serious" , "Her face went red with anger" , "She went into ecstasy" , "Get going!"
2.
Undergo a change or development.  Synonym: turn.  "Her former friend became her worst enemy" , "He turned traitor"
3.
Come into existence.
4.
Enhance the appearance of.  Synonym: suit.  "This behavior doesn't suit you!"



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"Becoming" Quotes from Famous Books



... chapel was added at the back, and at a higher level some time during the seventeenth century to cover in one of the statues, that of St. Anthony of Padua, who was then becoming very popular. ...
— Portuguese Architecture • Walter Crum Watson
... looked at it, but the left as one entered)—there stood a large mummy-case. To our unutterable amazement it was slowly opening. Gradually, gradually the lid was swinging back, and the black slit which marked the opening was becoming wider and wider. So gently and carefully was it done that the movement was almost imperceptible. Then, as we breathlessly watched it, a white thin hand appeared at the opening, pushing back the painted lid, ...
— Tales of Terror and Mystery • Arthur Conan Doyle
... are becoming quite sharp," said he, in a mocking tone; and an instant later I heard the door of his room close and the key turn in ...
— The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales • Arthur Conan Doyle
... Toomey was becoming acquainted with a new phase of her husband's character. She had thought she was familiar with all sides of it, those for which she loved him and those which taxed her patience and loyalty; but this moroseness, this brooding ...
— The Fighting Shepherdess • Caroline Lockhart
... through the body, is constantly becoming impure; and as it thus comes back impure to the heart, is as constantly sent to the lungs, where it comes in close contact with the air which we breathe, and is purified. But this same purifying process which goes on in the lungs, goes on, too, if the skin is in a pure, free, ...
— The Young Mother - Management of Children in Regard to Health • William A. Alcott


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