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- pronunciation:
- b
heIv
| part of speech: |
verb |
| inflections: |
behaves, behaving, behaved |
| definition 1: |
When someone or something behaves, it acts or does something in a certain way. When you talk about how birds behave, you are talking about the things that birds do and how they do it. It would be funny if your cat behaved like a dog. Then it might run and catch a ball in its mouth!
Our dog was behaving in a strange way, and we wondered what was wrong.- synonyms:
- act, function, operate, run
- similar words:
- deal, serve, work
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| definition 2: |
When someone tells a child to behave, they want them to act in a nice way and not do anything bad.
My dad said that if we go to the restaurant, we have to behave.- similar words:
- act, mind, obey
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| definition 3: |
When you behave yourself, you act in your best way. You don't do any little bad things that you might do sometimes.
Sometimes the boys play tricks on their babysitter, but they behave themselves with Allison because they really like her.- similar words:
- act, carry
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| related words: |
function |
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