BEHOVE meaning: Be appropriate or necessary for

We found 19 dictionaries that define the word behove:

General (18 matching dictionaries)

behove: Merriam-Webster.com
behove: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
behove: Collins English Dictionary
behove: Vocabulary.com
behove: Wordnik
behove: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
behove: Wiktionary
behove: Infoplease Dictionary
behove: Dictionary.com
Behove: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
behove: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
behove: Rhymezone
Behove: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
behove: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
behove: Free Dictionary
behove: Mnemonic Dictionary
behove: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)

behove: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ verb:  (transitive, formal) To befit, to suit.
▸ verb:  (transitive, formal) To be necessary for (someone).
▸ verb:  (transitive, formal) To be in the best interest of; to benefit.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, formal) To be needful, meet or becoming.

Similar:

behoove, besuit, appropriate, byhove, besort, suit, fit in, seem, besit, fit the bill, more...

Types:

be incumbent upon, fall to lot of, devolve upon, pertain to, more...

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