Behooved

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  • verb. Simple past tense and past participle of behoove.
  • Word Usage
    "They demolished the Old Dutch Mustard factory to build 80 Met said it "behooved" him to tear down what was one of Wiliamsburg's most charming surviving old industrial buildings."
    verb-stem
    behoove