Synonyms

act do

Examples

"You should act like an adult" "Don't behave like a fool" "What makes her do this way?" "She played the servant her husband's master"

Used in print

Now , apparently happier under new managers , Mays and Mantle , the perfect players , are behaving as though they 're going_to pass those previous peaks .

These cut-down plants will bud and blossom in record time and will behave just as they did in early spring .

And yet we obviously also believe that the avoidance of the disaster depends in some obscure or at_least uncertain way on the details of how we behave .

`` Since the war I have seen the way the Germans have behaved and I think , Holy_Mother , we have behaved like this for hundreds of years .

`` Since the war I have seen the way the Germans have behaved and I think , Holy_Mother , we have behaved like this for hundreds of years .

Related terms

act make ramp swell break_down play joke romanticize sentimentalise presume bungle swagger quack loosen_up follow bend_over_backwards dally piffle make make_as_if freeze optimize menace sauce backslap hugger_mugger footle stooge frivol vulgarise wanton act_involuntarily act_up dissemble act

Synonyms

conduct carry bear comport deport acquit

Examples

"She carried herself well" "he bore himself with dignity" "They conducted themselves well during these difficult times"

Used in print

How was she to behave , Claire wondered .

`` Tell me about Minerva , how she behaved , what she did to please you '' .

Related terms

act hold deal assert fluster walk_around pose hold behavior demeanor bearing

Synonyms

comport

Examples

"The children must learn to behave"

Used in print

We shall show that the polynomials * * f behave in the manner described in the first paragraph of the proof .

Related terms

misbehave act walk assert_oneself remember_oneself bearing