"behave oneself" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "behaves oneself",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "behaving oneself",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "behaved oneself",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "behaved oneself",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "behave oneself (third-person singular simple present behaves oneself, present participle behaving oneself, simple past and past participle behaved oneself)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English predicates",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "His mother threatened to spank him if he didn't behave himself.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1912, Stratemeyer Syndicate, chapter 1, in Baseball Joe on the School Nine:",
          "text": "\"That's what happened to me the last time you fired a high snowball. Peaches. That's why I didn't want you to try another while I'm around. You wait until I'm off the campus if you've got to indulge in high jinks. Come on now, fellows, since Peaches has promised to behave himself, let the merry dance go on. Have you tried a shot, Joe? Or you, Sister,\" and Teeter looked at the newcomers.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To act in a polite or proper way."
      ],
      "id": "en-behave_oneself-en-verb-QrWxNdGh",
      "links": [
        [
          "polite",
          "polite"
        ],
        [
          "proper",
          "proper"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "behave"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "behave oneself"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "behaves oneself",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "behaving oneself",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "behaved oneself",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "behaved oneself",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "behave oneself (third-person singular simple present behaves oneself, present participle behaving oneself, simple past and past participle behaved oneself)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English predicates",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "His mother threatened to spank him if he didn't behave himself.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1912, Stratemeyer Syndicate, chapter 1, in Baseball Joe on the School Nine:",
          "text": "\"That's what happened to me the last time you fired a high snowball. Peaches. That's why I didn't want you to try another while I'm around. You wait until I'm off the campus if you've got to indulge in high jinks. Come on now, fellows, since Peaches has promised to behave himself, let the merry dance go on. Have you tried a shot, Joe? Or you, Sister,\" and Teeter looked at the newcomers.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To act in a polite or proper way."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "polite",
          "polite"
        ],
        [
          "proper",
          "proper"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "behave"
    }
  ],
  "word": "behave oneself"
}