misbehaveverb [ I ]
uk/ˌmɪs.bɪˈheɪv/us/ˌmɪs.bɪˈheɪv/misbehave verb [ I ] (PERSON)
C1 to behave badly:
I was always getting in trouble for misbehaving at school.
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Bad and wrong behaviour
- act
- act out
- act up
- angel
- astray
- at your worst idiom
- be no angel idiom
- cross
- go off the rails idiom
- go round
- impossible
- incorrigible
- indecorous
- rail
- rough
- sink to such a level/such depths idiom
- step
- step out of line idiom
- step/be out of line idiom
- terrible twins
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misbehave verb [ I ] (MACHINE)
If machines misbehave, they do not operate as they should:
If computer circuits are allowed to overheat they will misbehave .
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Machines - not functioning
- burn
- cut
- deactivate
- dead
- defunct
- fritz
- ghost
- give up the ghost idiom
- go down
- haywire
- on the blink idiom
- out of commission idiom
- outage
- seize
- shudder
- shut
- shut (sth) off
- stop
- whack
- wrong
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misbehaviour
noun [ U ] UK US misbehavior uk/ˌmɪs.bɪˈheɪ.vjər/us/ˌmɪs.bɪˈheɪ.vjɚ/
The school expelled him for persistent misbehaviour.