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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



... a great productive force of which one could ask more, of which one could ask all things. His publishers, Chapman and Hall, seem to have taken at about this point that step which sooner or later most publishers do take with regard to a half successful man who is becoming wholly successful. Instead of asking him for something, they asked him for anything. They made him, so to speak, the editor of his own works. And indeed it is literally as the editor of his own works that he next appears; for the next thing to which ...
— Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens • G. K. Chesterton
... the "sister-disciples" were becoming more popular than ever in Petrograd society, and there were many converts to the ...
— The Minister of Evil - The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia • William Le Queux
... apt to exaggerate its own claims to mark an epoch. But, after a century of achievements in applied science, there seems little risk of error in asserting that the world is now becoming conscious as it never was before of the vast power given by material resources when under the control of a cool intelligence. And in the competition of nations it is not surprising that there should be an imperious demand for the most alert ...
— Recent Tendencies in Ethics • William Ritchie Sorley
... him, declaring that no medical man could possibly have a disinterested opinion on the subject. Then he brought out all that he vaguely knew of Malthusianism, the geometrical increase of births, and the arithmetical increase of food-substances, the earth becoming so populous as to be reduced to a state of famine within two centuries. It was the poor's own fault, said he, if they led a life of starvation; they had only to limit themselves to as many children as they could provide for. ...
— Fruitfulness - Fecondite • Emile Zola
... true." He was becoming exasperated at last. "You seem to spend your time in finding out how to make life intolerable. You are driving me mad. I cannot bear it ...
— Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 (of 2) • F. Marion Crawford


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