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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 inherent positive charge of the quaternary nitrogen and hydrophobic retinoid side chains in A2E suggest that it may behave as a surfactant.
At the same time, the right to free speech does not absolve us from our duty to behave responsibly.
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.
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.
I'm thirty-seven, but I really feel, and behave like I'm twenty-five. Then I'm weirded when I'm reminded.

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