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BEHOVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does behove mean? 

BEHOVE (verb)
  The verb BEHOVE has 1 sense:

1. be appropriate or necessaryplay

  Familiarity information: BEHOVE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BEHOVE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they behove  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it behoves  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: behoved  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: behoved  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: behoving  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Be appropriate or necessary

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

behoove; behove

Context example:

It behooves us to reflect on this matter

Hypernyms (to "behove" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Sentence frame:

It ----s that CLAUSE


 Context examples 


The better I loved her, the more it behoved me never to forget it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)



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