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worden — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • be verb To exist or to have a certain identity, quality, or state.
  • become verb To start being something different; to change into.
  • fall verb To move downward, especially suddenly and without control.
  • get verb To come to have or receive something; to obtain.
  • turn verb To move or rotate around an axis, or to change direction.
  • wax noun A soft, oily solid substance, such as beeswax or paraffin, used for candles, polish, and other purposes.

Senses

worden is used for these senses in English:

  • be (auxiliary) Used with past participles of verbs to form the passive voice.
  • become (transitive) To be proper for; to beseem. [from 13th c.]
  • fall (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.
  • get (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
  • get (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
  • smoothen (intransitive) To become smooth.
  • turn (copulative) To become (begin to be).
  • wax (intransitive, copulative, literary) To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.

be — full definition

  1. verb To exist or to have a certain identity, quality, or state.
  2. verb Used with another verb to form continuing or passive actions.

become — full definition

  1. verb To start being something different; to change into.
  2. verb To suit or look attractive on someone (formal/literary).

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