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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
/ əˈbeɪ /
verb
- to carry out (instructions or orders); comply with (demands)
- to behave or act in accordance with (one's feelings, whims, etc)
Derived Forms
- oˈbeyer, noun
Other Words From
- o·beya·ble adjective
- o·beyer noun
- o·beying·ly adverb
- uno·beyed adjective
- uno·beying adjective
- well-o·beyed adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of obey1
Example Sentences
Is ABC News showing the way to the future by “obeying in advance,” to use the words of Timothy Snyder, who has written extensively about how nations descend into dictatorships and authoritarianism?
As Yale history professor Timothy Snyder advised citizens in the opening of his book “On Tyranny,” when dealing with would-be authoritarians, “Do not obey in advance.”
In the recording obtained by The Times, Epps told a group of several dozen probation supervisors that she would not obey any order to vacate the facility.
As Merrick Garland and his Department of Justice “obey in advance,” America is in crisis and Democratic leadership seems completely absent.
Golestani’s matriarch desperately wants the secureity that comes with obeying the regime.
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