Bɪˈkʌm Live Verb Apparent Increasingly Clear Wrong Aware

• it soon became apparent that no one was going to come.
• it is becoming increasingly clear that something has gone seriously wrong.
• when did you first become aware of the problem?
• it was becoming more and more difficult to live on his salary.

become

Verb Forms

1. to start to be something
• It soon became apparent that no one was going to come.
• It is becoming increasingly clear that something has gone seriously wrong.
• When did you first become aware of the problem?
• It was becoming more and more difficult to live on his salary.
• She was becoming confused.
• She became queen in 1952.
• The bill will become law next year.
• Over the last five years she has become part of the family.
• How can I become a member of the society?
• She’s studying to become a teacher.
• His job has become his whole life.
2. to be suitable for somebody
• Such behaviour did not become her.
3. to look attractive on somebody
• SYNONYM suit
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/suit_2
• Short hair really becomes you.
4. used to ask what has happened or what will happen to somebody/something
• What became of that student who used to live with you?
• I dread to think what will become of them if they lose their home.

Word Origin

• Old English becuman ‘come to a place, come (to be or do something)’ (see be-, come), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bekomen and German bekommen ‘get, receive’.