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Another word for behave

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Verb

  1. To conduct oneself in a specified way

      1. To cease or discontinue:
      2. To resign from or relinquish:
      3. To depart from; leave:
      1. To perform or execute; carry out:
      2. To fulfill the requirements of:
      3. To perform the tasks or behaviors typically associated with (something), especially as part of one's character or normal duties:
      1. To expel from a country:
      2. To behave or conduct (oneself) in a given manner; comport.
      1. To conduct or behave (oneself) in a particular manner:
      1. To conduct or behave (oneself) in a particular manner:
      2. To agree, correspond, or harmonize:
      1. To hold or support while moving; bear:
      2. To move or take from one place to another; transport:
      3. To escort or accompany.
      1. To carry (something) on one's person from one place to another:
      2. To move from one place to another while containing or supporting (something); convey or transport:
      3. To cause to move by or with steady pressure; push:
      1. The process of doing or performing something:
      2. Something done or performed; a deed:
      3. Something done that has legal significance:
      1. To find not guilty of a criminal offense.
      2. To conduct (oneself) in a specified manner:
      3. To release or discharge from an obligation, such as a debt.
    See also:

    be

  2. To react in a specified way

      1. Physical or mental effort or activity directed toward the production or accomplishment of something:
      2. Such effort or activity by which one makes a living; employment:
      3. A trade, profession, or other means of livelihood:
      1. To begin and carry through to completion; do:
      2. To take action in accordance with the requirements of; fulfill:
      3. To enact (a feat or role) before an audience.
      1. To perform a function; work:
      2. To perform surgery.
      3. To exert an influence:
      1. A person's role or occupation:
      2. The physiological activity of an organ or body part:
      3. A procedure within an application.
      1. The process of doing or performing something:
      2. Something done or performed; a deed:
      3. Something done that has legal significance:
    See also:

    action

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Another word for behave

Verb

  1. To act

      1. A person's role or occupation:
      2. The physiological activity of an organ or body part:
      3. A procedure within an application.
      1. To move swiftly on foot so that both or all feet are not on the ground during each stride.
      2. To retreat rapidly; flee:
      3. To depart; leave:
      1. Physical or mental effort or activity directed toward the production or accomplishment of something:
      2. Such effort or activity by which one makes a living; employment:
      3. A trade, profession, or other means of livelihood:
      1. To begin and carry through to completion; do:
      2. To take action in accordance with the requirements of; fulfill:
      3. To enact (a feat or role) before an audience.
    See also:

    act

  2. To act in a specified or proper way

    See also:

    act

    Antonyms:

Synonym Study

  • Demean suggests behavior or appearance that is indicative of the specified character trait she demeaned herself like a gracious hostess
  • Acquit suggests behavior in accordance with the duties of one's position or with one's obligations the rookie acquitted himself like a major leaguer
  • Comport and esp. deport suggest behavior in accordance with the fixed rules of society they deported themselves like gentlemen
  • Conduct implies the direction or guidance of one's actions in a specified way she conducted herself well at the trial
  • Behave , used reflexively (as also the other words in this comparison), implies action in conformity with the required standards of decorum did the children behave themselves?
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Sentence Examples

  • I will teach you afresh, unless you behave better.

  • Resolved to behave as naturally as she could, she stripped and turned up the shower as hot as she could tolerate.

  • It is equally clear that there is a broad analogy between the kind of characters on which systematists often have to rely for the separation of species and those which Mendelian workers have shown to behave in accordance with the Mendelian theories of mosaic inheritance with segregation.

  • For her sake, he made an effort to behave, but he truly loved the openings she gave him.

  • "Depends on how you behave," she said, smiling up at him through happy tears.

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