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MISBEHAVE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Behave badly

Example:

The children misbehaved all morning

Synonyms:

misbehave; misconduct; misdemean

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "misbehave" is one way to...):

act; move (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "misbehave"):

fall from grace (revert back to bad behavior after a period of good behavior)

act up; carry on (misbehave badly; act in a silly or improper way)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody

Antonym:

behave (behave well or properly)

Derivation:

misbehavior (improper or wicked or immoral behavior)

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