Behove

Quick meaning: Behove is a verb meaning (transitive, formal) To befit, to suit.

Meaning

(transitive, formal) To befit, to suit.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, formal) To be necessary for (someone).
2. (transitive, formal) To be in the best interest of; to benefit.
3. (intransitive, formal) To be needful, meet or becoming.

Example Sentences

I never over Horeb heard / The blast of advent blow; / No fire-faced prophet brought me word / Which way behoved me go.

Nor does it behove western commentators whose countries are occupying Iraq to lay down conditions for those opposing it.

Seeing by the late alliance termed the Rhenish Confederacy, that Louis, King of France, has the most cunning and diabolic intentions on the Imperial Crown, thereby behoving all Germans to unite in a band of brotherhood.

Accordingly, Mr. Stryver inaugurated the Long Vacation with a formal proposal to take Miss Manette to Vauxhall Gardens; that failing, to Ranelagh; that unaccountably failing too, it behoved him to present himself in Soho, and there declare his noble mind.

Word Forms

• behoves
• behoving
• behoved
• behoven
• behoove

Synonyms for behove

Depending on context, synonyms include behoove.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include behoove, besuit, appropriate, byhove, besort, suit.

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