COMPORT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does comport mean? 

• COMPORT (verb)
  The verb COMPORT has 2 senses:

1. behave well or properly

2. behave in a certain manner

  Familiarity information: COMPORT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPORT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they comport    ... he / she / it comports   
Past simple: comported   
Past participle: comported   
-ing form: comporting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Behave well or properly

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

behave; comport

Context example:

The children must learn to behave

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

act; move (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "comport"):

walk (live or behave in a specified manner)

assert oneself (put oneself forward in an assertive and insistent manner)

remember oneself (recover one's good manners after a lapse or stop behaving badly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

comportment (dignified manner or conduct)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Behave in a certain manner

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

acquit; bear; behave; carry; comport; conduct; deport

Context example:

They conducted themselves well during these difficult times

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

bear; carry; hold (support or hold in a certain manner)

act; move (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "comport"):

fluster (be flustered; behave in a confused manner)

assert; put forward (insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized)

deal (behave in a certain way towards others)

walk around (behave in a certain manner or have certain properties)

pose; posture (behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

comportment (dignified manner or conduct)

 Context examples 

And most important of all, far down and yet always at the surface of his thought, was the problem of how he should comport himself toward these persons.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)