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obey
[oh-bey]
verb (used with object)
to comply with or follow the commands, restrictions, wishes, or instructions of.
to obey one's parents.
to comply with or follow (a command, restriction, wish, instruction, etc.).
(of things) to respond conformably in action to.
The car obeyed the slightest touch of the steering wheel.
to submit or conform in action to (some guiding principle, impulse, one's conscience, etc.).
verb (used without object)
to be obedient.
to agree to obey.
obey
/ əˈɪ /
verb
to carry out (instructions or orders); comply with (demands)
to behave or act in accordance with (one's feelings, whims, etc)
Other 51Թ Forms
- obeyable adjective
- obeyer noun
- obeyingly adverb
- unobeyed adjective
- unobeying adjective
- well-obeyed adjective
- ˈ noun
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of obey1
Example Sentences
He had me in mind to play a doctor in a rural town torn between her duty to help her patient and the imperative to obey restrictive new laws.
For example, Donald Trump has said that he is not obligated to obey the Constitution.
He must also “obey all laws,” Mono County District Attorney David Anderson said in a statement to The Times on Tuesday.
They observe that it would “be a fundamental mistake to define constitutional law in ways that force nonjudicial actors regularly to choose between obeying constitutional law and fulfilling what they regard as their constitutional obligations.”
Her father’s second-in-command, the handsome Jack Dean, insists family members play fair in obeying their father’s will.
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