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BEHOOVE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they behoove ... he / she / it behooves
Past simple: behooved
Past participle: behooved
-ing form: behooving
Sense 1
Meaning:
Be appropriate or necessary
Example:
It behooves us to reflect on this matter
Synonyms:
behoove; behove
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "behoove" is one way to...):
be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))
Sentence frame:
It ----s that CLAUSE
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