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Definition of Behave
Behave

To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain.

To carry; to conduct; to comport; to manage; to bear; -- used reflexively.

To act; to conduct; to bear or carry one's self; as, to behave well or ill.

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Behave Quotations

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
Winston Churchill

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
Henry David Thoreau

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
George Bernard Shaw

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
E. M. Forster

If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?
Gloria Steinem

Behave Translations

behave in Afrikaans is gedra hom
behave in Dutch is zich gedragen
behave in German is sich verhalten, benehmen
behave in Italian is comportamento
behave in Portuguese is comporte-se
behave in Spanish is comportarse, modales


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