Usually means: To grow or change into.
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  3. become: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. become: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Become, become: Wordnik
  7. become: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. become: Wiktionary
  9. become: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. become: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. become: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Become, become: Dictionary.com
  13. become: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. become: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Become (Seventh Wonder album), Become: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Become: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. become: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. become: Rhymezone
  19. become: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. become: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. become: FreeDictionary.org
  22. become: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. become: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. become: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. become: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. become: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. become: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. become: Idioms

(Note: See became as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (copulative) begin to be; turn into.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic outside become of) To come about; happen; come into being; arise.
verb:  (transitive) To be proper for; to beseem.
verb:  (transitive) Of an adornment, piece of clothing etc.: to look attractive on (someone).
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To arrive, come (to a place).

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