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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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The defendants were remanded on continuing bail to see how they would behave.
Anger and outright rage at the computer, when it doesn't behave the way YOU want it to, may be a symptom of this kind of transference.
Fortuna bid her goodnight, adjured her to behave and clasped her hand and kissed it before she made her way back to the inn.
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.
Under the cloak of anonymity, lovers, adulterers and closet gamblers were free to behave appallingly.

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