Usually means: Act in a specific manner.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word behave:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. behave: Merriam-Webster.com
  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: Free Dictionary
  22. behave: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Behave: The Word Detective
  24. behave: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

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

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

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

(Note: See behaved as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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.

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