Usually means: Act in a specific manner.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word Behave:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. behave: Merriam-Webster
  2. behave: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. behave: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. behave: Collins English Dictionary
  5. behave: Vocabulary.com
  6. Behave, behave: Wordnik
  7. behave: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. behave: Wiktionary
  9. behave: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. behave: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. behave: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. behave: Dictionary.com
  13. behave: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. behave: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Behave (Chumbawamba song), Behave: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Behave: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. behave: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. behave: Rhymezone
  19. behave: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. behave: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. behave: FreeDictionary.org
  22. behave: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Behave: The Word Detective
  24. behave: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. behave: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. behave: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. behave: Encyclopedia
  2. Windows API Guide (No longer online)

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. behave: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BEHAVE: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Behave: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (behave)

▸ verb:  (reflexive) To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way; to conform.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner; used with an adverbial of manner.
▸ verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To conduct, manage, regulate (something).
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To act in a polite or proper way.

Similar:
comport, deport, carry, do, conduct, act, acquit, bear, misbehave, react, more...

Opposite:
misbehave, rebel, disobey, transgress, defy

Types:
good, bad, right, wrong, moral, immoral, more...

Phrases:
to behave with respect to, behave badly, well behave, behave properly, how will they behave if the canadian, more...

Colors:
    beige,     gray,     white,     black,     brown, more...


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Similar:
comport, deport, carry, do, conduct, act, acquit, bear, misbehave, react, more...

Opposite:
misbehave, rebel, disobey, transgress, defy

Types:
good, bad, right, wrong, moral, immoral, more...

Phrases:
to behave with respect to, behave badly, well behave, behave properly, how will they behave if the canadian, to behave well, behave wildly, rule about how to behave or think, behave well or properly, more...

Colors:
    beige,     gray,     white,     black,     brown, more...



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