(behaves, behaving, behaved)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
The way that you behave is the way that you do and say things, and the things that you do and say.
I couldn't believe these people were behaving in this way...
He'd behaved badly.
= act
VERB: V prep/adv, V prep/adv
2.
If you behave or behave yourself, you act in the way that people think is correct and proper.
You have to behave...
They were expected to behave themselves.
VERB: V, V pron-refl
3.
In science, the way that something behaves is the things that it does.
Under certain conditions, electrons can behave like waves rather than particles.
VERB: V prep/adv