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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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A teenage car criminal has been locked up for a year just days after being ordered by a court to behave.
Later he was even prepared to rule that wayward parents should be sent on special parenting courses to teach them how to behave better.
Now players have the whip hand, just like Hollywood stars of the post-studio era, and they often behave badly.
The defendants were remanded on continuing bail to see how they would behave.
The inherent positive charge of the quaternary nitrogen and hydrophobic retinoid side chains in A2E suggest that it may behave as a surfactant.
Even the weather managed to behave itself, with the rain keeping off until the judging was well over.

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