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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Be·come v. i. [imp. Became p. p. Become; p. pr. & vb. n. Becoming.]
 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional matter, or a new character.
    The Lord God . . . breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.   --Gen. ii. 7.
    That error now which is become my crime.   --Milton.
 2. To come; to get. [Obs.]
    But, madam, where is Warwick then become!   --Shak.
 To become of, to be the present state or place of; to be the fate of; to be the end of; to be the final or subsequent condition of.
    What is then become of so huge a multitude?   --Sir W. Raleigh.