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What does behave mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word behave? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (reflexive) To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way.
  2. (intransitive) To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner; used with an adverbial of manner.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To conduct, manage, regulate (something).
  4. (intransitive) To act in a polite or proper way.
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At the same time, the right to free speech does not absolve us from our duty to behave responsibly.
Under the cloak of anonymity, lovers, adulterers and closet gamblers were free to behave appallingly.
Even the weather managed to behave itself, with the rain keeping off until the judging was well over.
Later he was even prepared to rule that wayward parents should be sent on special parenting courses to teach them how to behave better.
The inherent positive charge of the quaternary nitrogen and hydrophobic retinoid side chains in A2E suggest that it may behave as a surfactant.
The classroom instruction consisted of aeronautics and how to behave as an officer.

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