becomes
- 1Third-person singular simple present of become.
The caterpillar becomes a butterfly after a few weeks in its cocoon.
A quiet rumor becomes common knowledge once enough people repeat it.
Note
The present-tense form for he, she or it, and it does more than mark a change. Beside the linking use, where a noun or adjective follows (a rumor becomes knowledge), it can take a direct object. Then it means suiting someone in looks, as a color becomes her, or being fitting for someone, as such anger hardly becomes a judge. With an object, the person is what follows the verb, not a new state.
That shade of blue really becomes her.
Such petty anger hardly becomes a judge.
becomes is a form of become
become, verb: To begin to be something, or to change into a different state or thing. Full entry
- Spelling
- become → becomes: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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