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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 necessary
Familiarity information: BEHOVE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they behove ... he / she / it behoves
Past simple: behoved
Past participle: behoved
-ing form: behoving
... he / she / it behoves Past simple: behoved
Past participle: behoved
-ing form: behoving
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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