Enter or assume a certain state or condition.

synonyms: get, go.

Roget 847: ornament, embellish, enrich, decorate, adorn, bead, beautify, adonize^†.    smarten, furbish, polish, gild, varnish, whitewash, enamel, japan, lacquer, paint, grain.    garnish, trim, dizen^†, bedizen, prink^†, prank; trick out, fig out; deck, bedeck, dight^†, bedight^†, array; begawd^†, titivate^†; dress, dress up; spangle, bespangle, powder; embroider, work; chase, emboss, fret, emblazon; illuminate; illustrate.    become etc. (accord with) 23.    ... show more

Roget 144: be converted into; become, get, wax; come to, turn to, turn into, evolve into, develop into; turn out, lapse, shift; run into, fall into, pass into, slide into, glide into, grow into, ripen into, open into, resolve itself into, settle into, merge into, emerge as; melt, grow, come round to, mature, mellow; assume the form of, assume the shape of, assume the state of, assume the nature of, assume the character of; illapse^†; begin a new phase, assume a new phase, undergo a change.    convert into, resolve into; make, render; mold, form etc. 240; remodel, new model, refound^†, reform, reorganize; assimilate to, bring to, reduce to.    ... show more

Roget 1: exist, be; have being etc. n.; subsist, live, breathe, stand, obtain, be the case; occur etc. (event) 151; have place, prevail; find oneself, pass the time, vegetate.    consist in, lie in; be comprised in, be contained in, be constituted by.    come into existence etc. n.; arise etc. (begin) 66; come forth etc. (appear) 446.    become etc. (be converted) 144; bring into existence etc. 161.    abide, continue, endure, last, remain, stay.    ... show more

Roget 926: be the duty of; be incumbent etc. adj.. on, be responsible etc. adj.; behoove, become, befit, beseem; belong to, pertain to; fall to one's lot; devolve on; lie upon, lie on one's head, lie at one's door; rest with, rest on the shoulders of.    take upon oneself etc. (promise) 768; be bound to, become bound to, be sponsor for, become sponsor for; incur a responsibility etc. n.; be under an obligation, stand under an obligation, lie under an obligation; have to answer for, owe to it oneself.    impose a duty, etc. n.; enjoin, require, exact; bind, bind over; saddle with, prescribe, assign, call upon, look to, oblige.    enter upon a duty, perform a duty, observe a duty, fulfill a duty, discharge a duty, adhere to a duty, acquit oneself of a duty, satisfy a duty, enter upon an obligation, perform an obligation, observe an obligation, fulfill an obligation, discharge an obligation, adhere to an obligation, acquit oneself of an obligation, satisfy an obligation; act one's part, redeem one's pledge, do justice to, be at one's post; do duty; do one's duty etc. (be virtuous) 944.    be on one's good behavior, mind one's P's and Q's.    ... show more

Dutch: gaan, geraken, komen, raken, treden, vallen

Undergo a change or development.

synonym: turn.

Dutch: worden

Come into existence.

Dutch: ontstaan, worden

Enhance the appearance of:
— Mourning becomes Electra.

synonym: suit.