(~s, behaving, ~d)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
The way that you ~ 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 ~d badly.
= act
VERB: V prep/adv, V prep/adv
2.
If you ~ or ~ yourself, you act in the way that people think is correct and proper.
You have to ~...
They were expected to ~ themselves.
VERB: V, V pron-refl
3.
In science, the way that something ~s is the things that it does.
Under certain conditions, electrons can ~ like waves rather than particles.
VERB: V prep/adv