Behoove, v. a.
- 1. Become, befit, beseem, be fit for, be proper for, be meet for.
- 2. Be necessary or needful for, be binding or obligatory on, be one’s duty.
Be in earnest. Be serious, be thorough, be thoroughgoing, be resolute or determined, be not jesting.
Being, n.
- 1. Existence, subsistence, reality, actuality.
- 2. Essence, essential being, inmost nature, substance, inner reality, life, vital principle, root, core, heart,
centre of life.
- 3. Sentient, conscious, or personal agent, living thing, creature, living being.
Be in the ascendant. Have superior influence, have commanding influence.
Be in the wrong box. Mistake, err, make a mistake. See bark up the wrong tree.
Be it so.
- 1. Suppose it to be so, granted, grant it, admit it.
- 2. Amen, so be it, let it be so.
Belabor, v. a. Thump, bethump, strike, knock, lay blows upon. See beat.
Belate, v. a.
- 1. Delay, retard, render tardy, make too late.
- 2. Delay into night, benight, cover with darkness or night.
Belated, a.
- 1. Delayed, retarded, hindered, made late.
- 2. Overtaken by night, out late in the night, overtaken by darkness, caught in or by the dark.
Belaud, v. a. Overlaud, overpraise, cover with laudations, load with praises, praise lavishly.
Belay, v. a. (Naut.) Fasten, make fast.