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verb

• misbehave badly; act in a silly or improper way

• make itself felt as a recurring pain

38%9Behave badly
verb

• behave badly

38%3 To behave badly or inappropriately
noun

• a former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet (1,853.184 meters); 800 feet longer than a statute mile

• destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle

• a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region, with capital Lansing

• a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude

• the government agency in the United Kingdom that is responsible for internal security and counterintelligence on British territory

• a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters

• the syllable naming the third (mediant) note of any major scale in solmization

• the government agency in the United Kingdom that is responsible for internal security and counterintelligence overseas

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