Befits

Synonyms for "befits" (4 found)

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Closest matches (1)

Verb(1 words)
be appropriate

Strong matches (1)

Verb(1 words)
be suitable

Related words (2)

Verb(2 words)

Related word relations

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Collocations

5 entries
befit the descriptionbefit the occasionbefit the officebefit the rolebefit the status

Inflections

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Derivations

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Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

This befits you.

Source: tatoeba (812690)

For two hours we rambled about together, in silence for the most part, as befits two men who know each other intimately.

Source: tatoeba (6974467)

The rough-and-tumble work in Afghanistan, coming on the top of a natural Bohemianism of disposition, has made me rather more lax than befits a medical man. But with me there is a limit, and when I find a man who keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece, then I begin to give myself virtuous airs.

Source: tatoeba (6981853)

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