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behave English

Meaning behave meaning

What does behave mean?
Definitions in simple English

behave

How you behave is what you do or how you act. Why do you behave like that. How something behaves is what it usually does. We want to know how fire behaves in space. If you are behaving you are being good. I wish the children would behave. If you behave I will give you a reward.

behave

(= act, do) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself You should act like an adult Don't behave like a fool What makes her do this way? The dog acts ferocious, but he is really afraid of people (= bear, conduct, carry) behave in a certain manner She carried herself well he bore himself with dignity They conducted themselves well during these difficult times behave well or properly The children must learn to behave

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behave · verb

Examples behave examples

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Simple sentences

Behave yourself.
I don't know how I should behave.
Why do women behave the way they do?
Now that you're grown up, you must not behave like that.
Now that you are grown up, you must not behave like a child.
You should try to behave better.
Now you are a big boy, behave yourself.
Mary asked her son to behave himself.
Why do men behave like apes, and vice versa?
Why don't you try to behave like a gentleman?
It is stupid of him to behave like that.
You must not behave so.
It was childish of him to behave like that.
It's characteristic of him to behave like that.
It was out of the ordinary for Chris to behave so roughly.
If you are a student, behave as such.
Please behave like an English gentleman.
How dare you behave like that!
The boy doesn't know how to behave.
I wish Jim would behave himself.

Movie subtitles

I'll put writing paper in the hotel, and next year if you behave yourselves, I'll put in envelopes.
And when I behave nicely, he gives me a bit of sugar so that I can catch flies.
Behave. You're a foreigner here.
You better behave yourself, or i shall ask that you be shown out.
How will the King behave?
Does a King behave like that?
Behave like what?
Why don't you go back to your table and behave yourself?
We'll have a private car, liquor and gals on the trip. and the guides will make the deers behave.
Well, I'll leave you alone with that lady, but if you behave like a gentleman, I'll break your neck.
But there's no other way for me to behave decently towards you.
No matter who you like or dislike. you've got to behave and be pleasant.
Behave yourself Caussat!
At least here you'll behave.
Why don't you go back to your table and behave yourself? -Come on, guy.
And you'll have a good home here if you behave.
You behave yourself, I'll see you get to King Westley.
A hooligan stole it from me. Is that any way to behave?
Women who don't behave properly at the Hippo-Palace, out they go!
I know how to behave, madam.
I expect you two to behave like love birds so Russia will have an heir to the throne.
Are you going to behave like an obedient wife. or must I continue to treat you like a stubborn child?
Now that I've learned how Russia expects me to behave. I like it here.
The dog's well-trained, he'll behave himself.
I'll behave!
Oh, he knows how to behave but he gets carried away.
We do not believe in prying into our employees' private lives. provided, of course, they behave properly in their functions.
Behave.
You couldn't behave badly.
Oh, well, of course, it all depends how you behave, Ma.
Alfred Bridges, behave yourself.
Oh, Joey, behave.
I don't want to behave badly.
Behave yourself at school, and pay attention.

News and current affairs

Today, the mood is much grimmer, with references to 1929 and 1931 beginning to abound, even if some governments continue to behave as if the crisis was more classical than exceptional.
Only when more parents, teachers, and community leaders behave likewise will recruitment of terrorists dry up and law-enforcement authorities receive full cooperation from the populations they police.
For thousands of years, humans have relied on education, persuasion, social institutions, and the threat of real (or supernatural) punishment to make people behave decently.
It is not as if people would suddenly begin to behave better if we just gave them more facts and statistics, or better arguments.
A community based on love need not be a society where people behave like angels.
If universal conformity to a rules-based international order still seems like a distant prospect, an important reason is that countries that should be leading the charge still so often behave like rogue states.
Kahneman, a psychologist, has demonstrated how individuals systematically behave in ways less rational than orthodox economists believe they do.
All behave as though they are above the laws that constrain normal citizens.
There is no absolute yardstick on how to behave in these impossible circumstances, so people must judge every election on its merits.
Of course, human beings and nation states do often behave in similar ways.
A person of integrity does not behave dishonestly.
And painful experience tells us that economic agents may not behave as the models suppose they will.
By far the most widely used instrument are anti-dumping duties aimed at imposing some restraint on companies that behave in an anti-competitive way.
Why should governments behave differently?
To believe and behave otherwise would lead to regional chaos.
Indeed, with America's economy in apparent freefall, Trichet is threatening euro-zone trade unions with pre-emptive interest-rate hikes unless they behave as he sees fit.
And their publics are not pressuring them to behave otherwise.
Now, the people of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland - not rejected, after all - must behave as well as possible to salvage something workable from the sometimes bitter and divisive arguments.
Health problems may take you to a clinic, but many of them start with how you behave at home - what you eat and drink, whether you smoke or exercise or sleep enough, etc.
Why did twenty-first-century legislators behave differently?
Today's financial firm equity and bond holders must bear the main cost, or there is little hope they will behave more responsibly in the future.
The parallel with Japan highlights the need for governments to behave responsibly, individually and collectively.
But pariah states never behave responsibly, and no state has a bigger role than we do in coaxing Kim Jong-un's regime into normality.
First, if drugs are banned, then choosing not to use them is a test of one's character. A person of integrity does not behave dishonestly.

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