Word Meanings - CANCERATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To grow into a canser; to become cancerous. Boyle.

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• BECOME
  happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 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
• BOYLE'S LAW
  See LAW
• BECOMED
  Proper; decorous. And gave him what becomed love I might. Shak.
• CANCEROUS
  Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer. "cancerous vices" G. Eliot. -- Can"cer*ous*ly, adv. --Can"cer*ous*ness, n.
• UNBECOME
  To misbecome. Bp. Sherlock.
• MISBECOME
  Not to become; to suit ill; not to befit or be adapted to. Macaulay. Thy father will not act what misbecomes him. Addison.
• DISBECOME
  To misbecome. Massinger.