English
Pronunciation
IPA|/bɪ�h��v/
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-��v|-��v
Alternative spellings
behoove
Verb
en-verb|behov|ing
- To suit; to befit.
#:Nor does it behove western commentators whose countries are occupying Iraq to lay down conditions for those opposing it. 1
#:It behoves the Government to take note of that. 2
#:"It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others; or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own." -Thomas Jefferson 3
#:True, it ill behoves national newspaper columnists and MPs, let alone Prime Ministers, to start pontificating about how men � and hitherto a too tiny handful of women � shouldn't be paid £30,000 a year to risk their lives by going into burning buildings when everybody else is leaving them. 4
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