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Bewave vs Behave - What's the difference?

bewave | behave |

As verbs the difference between bewave and behave

is that bewave is (scotland) to shield; hide or bewave can be to blow or toss about; blow, waft, or sweep away while behave is (label) to conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way.

bewave

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) biweven, .

Verb

(bewav)
  • (Scotland) To shield; hide.
  • (Scotland) To lay wait for; overpower by means of some base stratagem.
  • Etymology 2

    From .

    Verb

    (bewav)
  • To blow or toss about; blow, waft, or sweep away.
  • (Scotland) To wander or waver.
  • 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