Definition of "behove" [be•hove]

• To suit; to befit. (verb)

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• "If I could speak one word that might be the means of enkindling in your heart, thoughts and feelings such as behove a man, who will one day have to give an account, not of himself alone, but of those committed to his care."
• "Whenever we use 'behove', the subject is always 'it'."
• "It would behove him to step down and let Colin Powell be president if just for the sake of having a black individual to fill the job."