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Definition of become : 1. of Become
2. To come; to get.
3. 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.
4. To suit or be suitable to; to be congruous with; to befit; to accord with, in character or circumstances; to be worthy of, or proper for; to cause to appear well; - said of persons and things.

Synonyms:

befit, go, pay back, ferment, drop dead, behoove, run, dumbfound, bewilder, baffle, bring forth, vex, bring, last, bugger off, rick, endure, bend, beget, run short, force, snuff it, display, fix, flex, cause, find, break down, croak, kick the bucket, sprain, accommodate, produce, construct, pay off, hold up, operate, give out, hold out, come, bring to pass, draw, bring into being, beautiful, stick, buy the farm, fashion, give-up the ghost, agree with, make, compose, go bad, embellish, turn into, obtain, get under one's skin, enrich, let, grace, develop, wax, bring about, require, fail, belong, occasion, flummox, buzz off, work, wrench, exit, mother, shift, have, turn over, pop off, reverse, fetch, conk out, distort, conform, suffer, acquire, sour, generate, expire, commence, induce, contract, lead, spoil, plow, match, enhance, break, live on, ornament, adorn, convey, catch, father, arrive, agree, compel, constitute, aim, shape, scram, incur, live, beat, sustain, plough, depart, beseem, plump, heighten, effect, drive, perplex, reach, arrest, begin, change state, conk, proceed, amaze, convert, capture, set out, render, set off, give way, perform, travel, wrick, choke, pose, move, get down, mature, survive, blend, make out, sound, garnish, puzzle, start, locomote, change, nonplus, receive, sire, establish, die, decease, engender, execute, rifle, get, function, cash in one's chips, gravel, experience, pass away, set about, deform, call on, fabricate, turn, extend, manufacture, stimulate, flatter, take, release, get going, perish, correspond, belong to, run low, detract from, mystify, grow, create, move around, change by reversal, twist, constrain, make up, frame, blend in, go with, pass, start out, do, go away, stupefy

fit, please, dovetail, benefit, satisfy, suit, serve

satisfied, fitted, served, suited, dovetailed, pleased, benefited, became

Usage examples:

• All she asked of them in return was that they should become Queen's men. - "Irish Race in the Past and the Present", Aug. J. Thebaud.
• 3. Participles often become adjectives without change of form. - "The Grammar of English Grammars", Goold Brown.
• It would have better become you, therefore, I continued, to help me than to hurt me. - "The Red Cockade", Stanley J. Weyman.