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unbecome

verb

Etymology

From un- + become.

  1. inherited from *bikwemaną✻
  2. inherited from becuman — “to come (to), approach, arrive, enter, meet with, fall in with; happen, befall; befit”
  3. inherited from becomen
  4. prefixed as unbecome — “un + become”

Definitions

  1. To misbecome.

    • […] he refrains from those freedoms which the world judges unbecoming his character, though harmless in themselves […]

  2. To become not, especially when one was previously not before a process of becoming what…

    To become not, especially when one was previously not before a process of becoming what one currently is.

    • I "became" a drunk only because of words and in response to pressure to do "the program" right. Thus I could "unbecome" a drunk if I just had the nerve or the imagination to break away from what you guys tell me I am from your words

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for unbecome. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA