Other forms: behooves
To behoove is to be right and proper for somebody to do. It behooves us to act, it would behoove him to listen, it behooves the court.
It occurs only in the third person with it — it behooves somebody to do something — and it is formal to the point of being a joke in ordinary speech. This is the American spelling; British writing has behove, which also rhymes differently. Note behoof, meaning benefit, which survives in on his behoof.
1verbbehooveTo be right and proper for somebody to do.
“It behooves us to check the facts before we accuse anyone.”
behoove is a being fitting.
Also accepted in games: behove
See behove.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire