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Behaved vs Behaving - What's the difference?

behaved | behaving |

As verbs the difference between behaved and behaving

is that behaved is past tense of behave while behaving is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun behaving is

behaviour.

behaved

English

Verb

(head)
  • (behave)

    • behave

    English

    Verb

  • (label) To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way.
  • * Bible, ii. 21
    • those that behaved themselves manfully
  • (label) To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner;
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-04-21, volume=411, issue=8884, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Subtle effects , passage=Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.}}
  • To conduct, manage, regulate (something).
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • He did behave his anger ere 'twas spent.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.iii:
    • who his limbs with labours, and his mind / Behaues with cares, cannot so easie mis.
  • (label) To act in a polite or proper way.

    • Derived terms

    * behave oneself

    Related terms

    * behavior, behaviour * behavioral, behavioural * behaviorist, behaviourist * behaviorism, behaviourism

    External links

    * * 1000 English basic words

    behaving

    English

    Verb

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (philosophy) behaviour
  • * 1998 , Daniel W. Conway, ?Peter S. Groff, Nietzsche: The world as will to power (page 315)
    • For any such thing can play the role in an individual life which philosophers have thought could, or at least should, be played only by things which were universal, common to us all. It can symbolise the blind impress all our behavings bear.