"become dead" is not a correct or usable phrase in written English.
Instead, you can use the phrase "die" to describe the same concept. Example: After a long illness, she eventually died.
If our family catch them they would become dead".
Summer's wheat fields had become dead meadows of dry sticks, the stubble stalks still standing tall.
But the wreaths may lose some of their magic once they leave Greece and become dead plant material.
And we ourselves could well become "dead" and "wounded," perhaps at this next junction, perhaps soon after it.
The very sky that hung above it looked pale and extinct, giving the idea, not of darkness, but of light that had become dead.
She fears that Split may meet the same fate as the old town of Dubrovnik, just down the Adriatic coast, which has become dead".People are always against change," grumbles Ante, a local taxi driver.
Thanks to important allies in Congress, he extracted nearly $350 million for projects the Pentagon did not want, wasting taxpayer money on what would become dead-end ventures.
We face a future in which we become dead-eyed consumers, tapping at things that do not know us or love us.
Humans can become dead-end intermediate hosts; visceral linguatuliasis then develops (2 ) if infective eggs are ingested.
Productive crossover infections may occur in low numbers in remote areas of Africa, but because of low population density and isolation, they do not have the opportunity to become epidemic strains and instead become dead-end infections.
Second, understanding which viruses are likely to rapidly evolve in humans, rather than become dead-end hosts, will involve a combination of host immunologic and viral evolutionary traits (7, 32 ).
