behave
Use Behave in a sentence
verb (used without object)
1.
to act in a particular way; conduct or comport oneself or itself: The ship behaves well.
2.
to act properly: Did the child behave?
3.
to act or react under given circumstances: This plastic behaves strangely under extreme heat or cold.
verb (used with object)
4.
to conduct or comport (oneself) in a proper manner: Sit quietly and behave yourself.
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| —vb | |
| 1. | (intr) to act or function in a specified or usual way |
| 2. | to conduct (oneself) in a specified way: he behaved badly towards her |
| 3. | to conduct (oneself) properly or as desired: the child behaved himself all day |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
behave
early 15c., from be- intensive prefix + have; the sense is "to have or bear (oneself) in a particular way, comport" (cf. Ger. sich behaben, Fr. se porter). Cognate O.E. compound behabban meant "to contain," though the modern sense of behave could have
evolved from behabban via a notion of "self-restraint."
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Example sentences
The software works by creating a model of how players normally behave during a game.
Living in one of these bacterial cities causes an individual bacterium to behave differently.
They have an inability to control their emotions or to behave rationally.
It kicks out participants who don't behave in the manner the real-life room monitors deem appropriate.
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