Definition of obey in English:

obey

verb ə(ʊ)ˈbeɪ

[with object]

1Submit to the authority of (someone) or comply with (a law)
I always obey my father
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘No, you better go too,’ we obeyed him and followed the other vampires into the lounge.
- People obeyed him because they were afraid of him; they feared him because he was a murderous thug, surrounded by an entourage of murderous thugs.
- But my fear of my father forced me to obey him and I cautiously made my way to the parlor.
- He knew that his people would always obey him, but no one ever visited him just to talk.
- The intelligence chief agreed to obey his political masters, and the fell deed was done.
- You are protected by me and my power like every other vampire who follows and obeys me.
- Dutifully, Eaton obeyed his mother and followed her, but he could not help but look behind him.
- Though Helge obeyed his father and joined the business, he spent every spare moment studying art, travelling constantly.
- They are taught to be polite, obey their parents, and defer to authority.
- In this matter of seizing a child as you put it, which is against our laws, we cannot obey you.
- They are no longer puritanical and oriented to obeying an authoritarian God.
- He learned the way of holiness by obeying his Father.
- The subjects must obey the emperor, and sons must obey their father.
- Everyone around Alan always obeyed Jason and Alan himself was no exception to the rule.
- He was meant for royalty and people always obeyed him.
- My kids will one day set up their own household and I hope they will always love me, but they are certainly not going to always obey me.
- I immediately chased after her, obeying her as I always did.
- A woman used to be required to obey her father before marriage, her husband during married life, and her sons in widowhood.
- Jace always obeyed his mother, and respected her to the utmost.
- Keziah didn't know how much authority he had, but found herself obeying him anyway.
Synonyms
do what someone says, take/accept orders from, carry out/follow the orders of, be dutiful to, heed
submit to, defer to, be ruled by, bow to, give way/in to, yield to, surrender to, truckle to
comply with, adhere to, observe, abide by, act in accordance with, conform to, respect, acquiesce in, consent to, agree to, follow, accept, keep to, stick to
play it by the book, toe the line
1. 1.1 Carry out (a command or instruction)
  the officer was convicted for refusing to obey orders
  no object when the order was repeated, he refused to obey
  Example sentencesExamples
  Sometimes, the stolen pets are not controllable or refuse to obey the commands of the thieves, leading to a round of beatings.
  The officer refused to obey the guard's instructions and continued on his merry way.
  Bin workers refused to obey the order, saying they did not want to be dragged into the dispute by facilitating the arrest of protesters.
  The military commanders refused to obey their orders, in their minds for good and sufficient reasons.
  You must obey the instructions contained in this order.
  The result was that men all wore plaited queues, but the women refused to obey the order, and continued to have their feet bound.
  If the Russian commanders had obeyed orders and withdrawn in good time Russian dignity would have been preserved.
  I find that the father was justified in feeling that the mother was refusing to obey court orders, with impunity.
  Local military commanders, however, refused to obey Sharif's order that the plane be prevented from landing.
  The soldiers obeyed his command because Rexil had ordered them to.
  Men, women and children are tear-gassed and sprayed with capisicum spray when they refuse to obey orders.
  Harrisburg police say the pastors refused to obey their orders to stay more than 50 feet from the park.
  The most likely explanation is that the militias' leadership is ordering this restraint, obeying the instructions of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani.
  And on the need for contempt powers, he recounted how officials at times refused to obey the orders.
  Captain Harper shouted out orders to his crew, who rushed to obey his commands.
  One constable slapped a Bengali photographer who refused to obey his orders on the first day of the Rawalpindi Test.
  By issuing the order, the Ministry of Defence can argue that the soldier endangered himself by refusing to obey the command.
  These officials should be instructed that they have the right and duty to refuse to obey any order to participate in torture.
  They can only eat at set times, must carry ID cards, obey all staff instructions and are only allowed restricted visits.
  Some of the men refused to obey an instruction from a police officer to turn back from the pits, and were arrested.
  Synonyms
  carry out, perform, act on, execute, discharge, put into effect, implement, fulfil, meet
2. 1.2 Behave in accordance with (a general principle, natural law, etc.)
  the universe was complex but it obeyed certain rules
  Example sentencesExamples
  So the Planck length arises naturally when we ask what is the minimal size object we can make which doesn't collapse into a black hole and which obeys the uncertainty principle.
  One need only consider Black Holes to see how Existence obeys rules which are difficult for our minds to accept.
  He said obedience brought about prosperity to any body that vowed to look to obeying God's principles.
  No matter that we didn't obey the golden rules - we were adults who could look after ourselves.
  The distribution of probability amplitudes obeys wave-like equations, the amplitude changing in space-time like a wave does.
  These two characteristics appear to be stable under many growth conditions and their inheritance obeys the rules of normal Mendelian genetics.
  Well, that is until I am lynched by my fellow passengers for not obeying the unwritten rules of travel on the London Underground.
  I want to strictly obey the principle that any difference theoretically impossible to detect is no difference at all.
  The most satisfying examples of it occur when the nonsense operates according to the rules of an anarchic universe, and obeys logic within this context.
  This field obeys the expected equations of motion for an electromagnetic vector potential in four spacetime dimensions.
  The world looked on, deaf to pleas to intervene, and even when the president last week removed freedom of the press, the Commonwealth only uttered pious warnings about obeying democratic principles.
  Sure web space is not free space, but you'd think a website especially devoted to dissenting opinions would tend to obey its own principles.
  Though sympathetic toward General Tang, Li said he still felt compelled to criticize General Tang for not obeying the moral principles of the military to never reprove superior officers.
  Both generators obey the first ground rule of satire: meticulous observation.
  The melancholic's experience is very different, partly because the loss being grieved rarely obeys the reality principle.
  They also proceeded to explore the reasons why gases do not always behave ideally and obey this equation.
  A love story between Adele and Rannulph could have obeyed cinematic formulas, but it doesn't.
  According to them citizens must live and obey the governing rules of their society, but only contractually.
  It can have that appearance only if it appears to obey certain principles.
  Bellaria's death obeys the principle brought out in Ovid, that the fulfillment of the wish to know the object of desire only circumvents the logic of desire and destroys the object itself.

Derivatives

obeyer

noun

I am ever an obeyer of God's order.
Example sentencesExamples
- Oh well, they're both just the prime minister's hacks, recipients of his favours, obeyers of his orders.
- Rather than being a perfectly virtuous moral agent, it seems to me that an uncaring, robot-like obeyer of duty is morally bankrupt.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French obeir, from Latin oboedire, from ob- 'in the direction of' + audire 'hear'.

Latin oboedire ‘pay attention to’ is based on audire ‘to hear’ (see audience). In the traditional Church of England wedding vows the husband promised ‘to love and cherish’ his wife ‘till death us do part’, while the wife promised to ‘love, cherish, and obey’ her husband. She who must be obeyed, was the title of the beautiful sorceress Ayesha in the adventure story She (1887) by Sir H. Rider Haggard, although many now know it better from Sir John Mortimer's television series and books about Rumpole of the Bailey, where Rumpole uses it to refer to his wife.

Rhymes

affray, agley, aka, allay, Angers, A-OK, appellation contrôlée, array, assay, astray, au fait, auto-da-fé, away, aweigh, aye, bay, belay, betray, bey, Bombay, Bordet, boulevardier, bouquet, brae, bray, café au lait, Carné, cassoulet, Cathay, chassé, chevet, chez, chiné, clay, convey, Cray, crème brûlée, crudités, cuvée, cy-pres, day, decay, deejay, dégagé, distinguée, downplay, dray, Dufay, Dushanbe, eh, embay, engagé, essay, everyday, faraway, fay, fey, flay, fray, Frey, fromage frais, gainsay, Gaye, Genet, giclee, gilet, glissé, gray, grey, halfway, hay, heigh, hey, hooray, Hubei, Hué, hurray, inveigh, jay, jeunesse dorée, José, Kay, Kaye, Klee, Kray, Lae, lay, lei, Littré, Lough Neagh, lwei, Mae, maguey, Malay, Mallarmé, Mandalay, Marseilles, may, midday, midway, mislay, misplay, Monterrey, Na-Dene, nay, né, née, neigh, Ney, noway, O'Dea, okay, olé, outlay, outplay, outstay, outweigh, oyez, part-way, pay, Pei, per se, pince-nez, play, portray, pray, prey, purvey, qua, Quai d'Orsay, Rae, rangé, ray, re, reflet, relevé, roman-à-clef, Santa Fé, say, sei, Shar Pei, shay, slay, sleigh, sley, spae, spay, Spey, splay, spray, stay, straightaway, straightway, strathspey, stray, Sui, survey, sway, Taipei, Tay, they, today, tokay, Torbay, Tournai, trait, tray, trey, two-way, ukiyo-e, underlay, way, waylay, Wei, weigh, wey, Whangarei, whey, yea

Definition of obey in US English:

obey

verb

[with object]

1Comply with the command, direction, or request of (a person or a law); submit to the authority of.
I always obey my father
Example sentencesExamples
- They are taught to be polite, obey their parents, and defer to authority.
- You are protected by me and my power like every other vampire who follows and obeys me.
- But my fear of my father forced me to obey him and I cautiously made my way to the parlor.
- ‘No, you better go too,’ we obeyed him and followed the other vampires into the lounge.
- People obeyed him because they were afraid of him; they feared him because he was a murderous thug, surrounded by an entourage of murderous thugs.
- They are no longer puritanical and oriented to obeying an authoritarian God.
- I immediately chased after her, obeying her as I always did.
- Though Helge obeyed his father and joined the business, he spent every spare moment studying art, travelling constantly.
- A woman used to be required to obey her father before marriage, her husband during married life, and her sons in widowhood.
- Jace always obeyed his mother, and respected her to the utmost.
- In this matter of seizing a child as you put it, which is against our laws, we cannot obey you.
- Everyone around Alan always obeyed Jason and Alan himself was no exception to the rule.
- He was meant for royalty and people always obeyed him.
- Dutifully, Eaton obeyed his mother and followed her, but he could not help but look behind him.
- He knew that his people would always obey him, but no one ever visited him just to talk.
- My kids will one day set up their own household and I hope they will always love me, but they are certainly not going to always obey me.
- Keziah didn't know how much authority he had, but found herself obeying him anyway.
- He learned the way of holiness by obeying his Father.
- The intelligence chief agreed to obey his political masters, and the fell deed was done.
- The subjects must obey the emperor, and sons must obey their father.
Synonyms
do what someone says, accept orders from, take orders from, carry follow the orders of, carry out the orders of, be dutiful to, heed
comply with, adhere to, observe, abide by, act in accordance with, conform to, respect, acquiesce in, consent to, agree to, follow, accept, keep to, stick to
1. 1.1 Carry out (a command or instruction)
  the officer was convicted for refusing to obey orders
  no object when the order was repeated, he refused to obey
  Example sentencesExamples
  Local military commanders, however, refused to obey Sharif's order that the plane be prevented from landing.
  If the Russian commanders had obeyed orders and withdrawn in good time Russian dignity would have been preserved.
  They can only eat at set times, must carry ID cards, obey all staff instructions and are only allowed restricted visits.
  The most likely explanation is that the militias' leadership is ordering this restraint, obeying the instructions of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani.
  One constable slapped a Bengali photographer who refused to obey his orders on the first day of the Rawalpindi Test.
  Captain Harper shouted out orders to his crew, who rushed to obey his commands.
  Some of the men refused to obey an instruction from a police officer to turn back from the pits, and were arrested.
  And on the need for contempt powers, he recounted how officials at times refused to obey the orders.
  By issuing the order, the Ministry of Defence can argue that the soldier endangered himself by refusing to obey the command.
  Bin workers refused to obey the order, saying they did not want to be dragged into the dispute by facilitating the arrest of protesters.
  You must obey the instructions contained in this order.
  The military commanders refused to obey their orders, in their minds for good and sufficient reasons.
  I find that the father was justified in feeling that the mother was refusing to obey court orders, with impunity.
  The soldiers obeyed his command because Rexil had ordered them to.
  The result was that men all wore plaited queues, but the women refused to obey the order, and continued to have their feet bound.
  These officials should be instructed that they have the right and duty to refuse to obey any order to participate in torture.
  Men, women and children are tear-gassed and sprayed with capisicum spray when they refuse to obey orders.
  Sometimes, the stolen pets are not controllable or refuse to obey the commands of the thieves, leading to a round of beatings.
  The officer refused to obey the guard's instructions and continued on his merry way.
  Harrisburg police say the pastors refused to obey their orders to stay more than 50 feet from the park.
  Synonyms
  carry out, perform, act on, execute, discharge, put into effect, implement, fulfil, meet
2. 1.2 Behave in accordance with (a general principle, natural law, etc.)
  the universe was complex but it obeyed certain rules
  Example sentencesExamples
  Both generators obey the first ground rule of satire: meticulous observation.
  Bellaria's death obeys the principle brought out in Ovid, that the fulfillment of the wish to know the object of desire only circumvents the logic of desire and destroys the object itself.
  The distribution of probability amplitudes obeys wave-like equations, the amplitude changing in space-time like a wave does.
  Though sympathetic toward General Tang, Li said he still felt compelled to criticize General Tang for not obeying the moral principles of the military to never reprove superior officers.
  No matter that we didn't obey the golden rules - we were adults who could look after ourselves.
  This field obeys the expected equations of motion for an electromagnetic vector potential in four spacetime dimensions.
  According to them citizens must live and obey the governing rules of their society, but only contractually.
  He said obedience brought about prosperity to any body that vowed to look to obeying God's principles.
  It can have that appearance only if it appears to obey certain principles.
  The world looked on, deaf to pleas to intervene, and even when the president last week removed freedom of the press, the Commonwealth only uttered pious warnings about obeying democratic principles.
  The melancholic's experience is very different, partly because the loss being grieved rarely obeys the reality principle.
  A love story between Adele and Rannulph could have obeyed cinematic formulas, but it doesn't.
  The most satisfying examples of it occur when the nonsense operates according to the rules of an anarchic universe, and obeys logic within this context.
  These two characteristics appear to be stable under many growth conditions and their inheritance obeys the rules of normal Mendelian genetics.
  Well, that is until I am lynched by my fellow passengers for not obeying the unwritten rules of travel on the London Underground.
  Sure web space is not free space, but you'd think a website especially devoted to dissenting opinions would tend to obey its own principles.
  I want to strictly obey the principle that any difference theoretically impossible to detect is no difference at all.
  One need only consider Black Holes to see how Existence obeys rules which are difficult for our minds to accept.
  They also proceeded to explore the reasons why gases do not always behave ideally and obey this equation.
  So the Planck length arises naturally when we ask what is the minimal size object we can make which doesn't collapse into a black hole and which obeys the uncertainty principle.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French obeir, from Latin oboedire, from ob- ‘in the direction of’ + audire ‘hear’.

单词	obey
释义	Definition of obey in English: obey verb ə(ʊ)ˈbeɪ [with object] 1Submit to the authority of (someone) or comply with (a law) I always obey my father Example sentencesExamples ‘No, you better go too,’ we obeyed him and followed the other vampires into the lounge. People obeyed him because they were afraid of him; they feared him because he was a murderous thug, surrounded by an entourage of murderous thugs. But my fear of my father forced me to obey him and I cautiously made my way to the parlor. He knew that his people would always obey him, but no one ever visited him just to talk. The intelligence chief agreed to obey his political masters, and the fell deed was done. You are protected by me and my power like every other vampire who follows and obeys me. Dutifully, Eaton obeyed his mother and followed her, but he could not help but look behind him. Though Helge obeyed his father and joined the business, he spent every spare moment studying art, travelling constantly. They are taught to be polite, obey their parents, and defer to authority. In this matter of seizing a child as you put it, which is against our laws, we cannot obey you. They are no longer puritanical and oriented to obeying an authoritarian God. He learned the way of holiness by obeying his Father. The subjects must obey the emperor, and sons must obey their father. Everyone around Alan always obeyed Jason and Alan himself was no exception to the rule. He was meant for royalty and people always obeyed him. My kids will one day set up their own household and I hope they will always love me, but they are certainly not going to always obey me. I immediately chased after her, obeying her as I always did. A woman used to be required to obey her father before marriage, her husband during married life, and her sons in widowhood. Jace always obeyed his mother, and respected her to the utmost. Keziah didn't know how much authority he had, but found herself obeying him anyway. Synonyms do what someone says, take/accept orders from, carry out/follow the orders of, be dutiful to, heed submit to, defer to, be ruled by, bow to, give way/in to, yield to, surrender to, truckle to comply with, adhere to, observe, abide by, act in accordance with, conform to, respect, acquiesce in, consent to, agree to, follow, accept, keep to, stick to play it by the book, toe the line 1.1 Carry out (a command or instruction) the officer was convicted for refusing to obey orders no object when the order was repeated, he refused to obey Example sentencesExamples Sometimes, the stolen pets are not controllable or refuse to obey the commands of the thieves, leading to a round of beatings. The officer refused to obey the guard's instructions and continued on his merry way. Bin workers refused to obey the order, saying they did not want to be dragged into the dispute by facilitating the arrest of protesters. The military commanders refused to obey their orders, in their minds for good and sufficient reasons. You must obey the instructions contained in this order. The result was that men all wore plaited queues, but the women refused to obey the order, and continued to have their feet bound. If the Russian commanders had obeyed orders and withdrawn in good time Russian dignity would have been preserved. I find that the father was justified in feeling that the mother was refusing to obey court orders, with impunity. Local military commanders, however, refused to obey Sharif's order that the plane be prevented from landing. The soldiers obeyed his command because Rexil had ordered them to. Men, women and children are tear-gassed and sprayed with capisicum spray when they refuse to obey orders. Harrisburg police say the pastors refused to obey their orders to stay more than 50 feet from the park. The most likely explanation is that the militias' leadership is ordering this restraint, obeying the instructions of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani. And on the need for contempt powers, he recounted how officials at times refused to obey the orders. Captain Harper shouted out orders to his crew, who rushed to obey his commands. One constable slapped a Bengali photographer who refused to obey his orders on the first day of the Rawalpindi Test. By issuing the order, the Ministry of Defence can argue that the soldier endangered himself by refusing to obey the command. These officials should be instructed that they have the right and duty to refuse to obey any order to participate in torture. They can only eat at set times, must carry ID cards, obey all staff instructions and are only allowed restricted visits. Some of the men refused to obey an instruction from a police officer to turn back from the pits, and were arrested. Synonyms carry out, perform, act on, execute, discharge, put into effect, implement, fulfil, meet 1.2 Behave in accordance with (a general principle, natural law, etc.) the universe was complex but it obeyed certain rules Example sentencesExamples So the Planck length arises naturally when we ask what is the minimal size object we can make which doesn't collapse into a black hole and which obeys the uncertainty principle. One need only consider Black Holes to see how Existence obeys rules which are difficult for our minds to accept. He said obedience brought about prosperity to any body that vowed to look to obeying God's principles. No matter that we didn't obey the golden rules - we were adults who could look after ourselves. The distribution of probability amplitudes obeys wave-like equations, the amplitude changing in space-time like a wave does. These two characteristics appear to be stable under many growth conditions and their inheritance obeys the rules of normal Mendelian genetics. Well, that is until I am lynched by my fellow passengers for not obeying the unwritten rules of travel on the London Underground. I want to strictly obey the principle that any difference theoretically impossible to detect is no difference at all. The most satisfying examples of it occur when the nonsense operates according to the rules of an anarchic universe, and obeys logic within this context. This field obeys the expected equations of motion for an electromagnetic vector potential in four spacetime dimensions. The world looked on, deaf to pleas to intervene, and even when the president last week removed freedom of the press, the Commonwealth only uttered pious warnings about obeying democratic principles. Sure web space is not free space, but you'd think a website especially devoted to dissenting opinions would tend to obey its own principles. Though sympathetic toward General Tang, Li said he still felt compelled to criticize General Tang for not obeying the moral principles of the military to never reprove superior officers. Both generators obey the first ground rule of satire: meticulous observation. The melancholic's experience is very different, partly because the loss being grieved rarely obeys the reality principle. They also proceeded to explore the reasons why gases do not always behave ideally and obey this equation. A love story between Adele and Rannulph could have obeyed cinematic formulas, but it doesn't. According to them citizens must live and obey the governing rules of their society, but only contractually. It can have that appearance only if it appears to obey certain principles. Bellaria's death obeys the principle brought out in Ovid, that the fulfillment of the wish to know the object of desire only circumvents the logic of desire and destroys the object itself. Derivatives obeyer noun I am ever an obeyer of God's order. Example sentencesExamples Oh well, they're both just the prime minister's hacks, recipients of his favours, obeyers of his orders. Rather than being a perfectly virtuous moral agent, it seems to me that an uncaring, robot-like obeyer of duty is morally bankrupt. Origin Middle English: from Old French obeir, from Latin oboedire, from ob- 'in the direction of' + audire 'hear'. Latin oboedire ‘pay attention to’ is based on audire ‘to hear’ (see audience). In the traditional Church of England wedding vows the husband promised ‘to love and cherish’ his wife ‘till death us do part’, while the wife promised to ‘love, cherish, and obey’ her husband. She who must be obeyed, was the title of the beautiful sorceress Ayesha in the adventure story She (1887) by Sir H. Rider Haggard, although many now know it better from Sir John Mortimer's television series and books about Rumpole of the Bailey, where Rumpole uses it to refer to his wife. Rhymes affray, agley, aka, allay, Angers, A-OK, appellation contrôlée, array, assay, astray, au fait, auto-da-fé, away, aweigh, aye, bay, belay, betray, bey, Bombay, Bordet, boulevardier, bouquet, brae, bray, café au lait, Carné, cassoulet, Cathay, chassé, chevet, chez, chiné, clay, convey, Cray, crème brûlée, crudités, cuvée, cy-pres, day, decay, deejay, dégagé, distinguée, downplay, dray, Dufay, Dushanbe, eh, embay, engagé, essay, everyday, faraway, fay, fey, flay, fray, Frey, fromage frais, gainsay, Gaye, Genet, giclee, gilet, glissé, gray, grey, halfway, hay, heigh, hey, hooray, Hubei, Hué, hurray, inveigh, jay, jeunesse dorée, José, Kay, Kaye, Klee, Kray, Lae, lay, lei, Littré, Lough Neagh, lwei, Mae, maguey, Malay, Mallarmé, Mandalay, Marseilles, may, midday, midway, mislay, misplay, Monterrey, Na-Dene, nay, né, née, neigh, Ney, noway, O'Dea, okay, olé, outlay, outplay, outstay, outweigh, oyez, part-way, pay, Pei, per se, pince-nez, play, portray, pray, prey, purvey, qua, Quai d'Orsay, Rae, rangé, ray, re, reflet, relevé, roman-à-clef, Santa Fé, say, sei, Shar Pei, shay, slay, sleigh, sley, spae, spay, Spey, splay, spray, stay, straightaway, straightway, strathspey, stray, Sui, survey, sway, Taipei, Tay, they, today, tokay, Torbay, Tournai, trait, tray, trey, two-way, ukiyo-e, underlay, way, waylay, Wei, weigh, wey, Whangarei, whey, yea Definition of obey in US English: obey verb [with object] 1Comply with the command, direction, or request of (a person or a law); submit to the authority of. I always obey my father Example sentencesExamples They are taught to be polite, obey their parents, and defer to authority. You are protected by me and my power like every other vampire who follows and obeys me. But my fear of my father forced me to obey him and I cautiously made my way to the parlor. ‘No, you better go too,’ we obeyed him and followed the other vampires into the lounge. People obeyed him because they were afraid of him; they feared him because he was a murderous thug, surrounded by an entourage of murderous thugs. They are no longer puritanical and oriented to obeying an authoritarian God. I immediately chased after her, obeying her as I always did. Though Helge obeyed his father and joined the business, he spent every spare moment studying art, travelling constantly. A woman used to be required to obey her father before marriage, her husband during married life, and her sons in widowhood. Jace always obeyed his mother, and respected her to the utmost. In this matter of seizing a child as you put it, which is against our laws, we cannot obey you. Everyone around Alan always obeyed Jason and Alan himself was no exception to the rule. He was meant for royalty and people always obeyed him. Dutifully, Eaton obeyed his mother and followed her, but he could not help but look behind him. He knew that his people would always obey him, but no one ever visited him just to talk. My kids will one day set up their own household and I hope they will always love me, but they are certainly not going to always obey me. Keziah didn't know how much authority he had, but found herself obeying him anyway. He learned the way of holiness by obeying his Father. The intelligence chief agreed to obey his political masters, and the fell deed was done. The subjects must obey the emperor, and sons must obey their father. Synonyms do what someone says, accept orders from, take orders from, carry follow the orders of, carry out the orders of, be dutiful to, heed comply with, adhere to, observe, abide by, act in accordance with, conform to, respect, acquiesce in, consent to, agree to, follow, accept, keep to, stick to 1.1 Carry out (a command or instruction) the officer was convicted for refusing to obey orders no object when the order was repeated, he refused to obey Example sentencesExamples Local military commanders, however, refused to obey Sharif's order that the plane be prevented from landing. If the Russian commanders had obeyed orders and withdrawn in good time Russian dignity would have been preserved. They can only eat at set times, must carry ID cards, obey all staff instructions and are only allowed restricted visits. The most likely explanation is that the militias' leadership is ordering this restraint, obeying the instructions of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani. One constable slapped a Bengali photographer who refused to obey his orders on the first day of the Rawalpindi Test. Captain Harper shouted out orders to his crew, who rushed to obey his commands. Some of the men refused to obey an instruction from a police officer to turn back from the pits, and were arrested. And on the need for contempt powers, he recounted how officials at times refused to obey the orders. By issuing the order, the Ministry of Defence can argue that the soldier endangered himself by refusing to obey the command. Bin workers refused to obey the order, saying they did not want to be dragged into the dispute by facilitating the arrest of protesters. You must obey the instructions contained in this order. The military commanders refused to obey their orders, in their minds for good and sufficient reasons. I find that the father was justified in feeling that the mother was refusing to obey court orders, with impunity. The soldiers obeyed his command because Rexil had ordered them to. The result was that men all wore plaited queues, but the women refused to obey the order, and continued to have their feet bound. These officials should be instructed that they have the right and duty to refuse to obey any order to participate in torture. Men, women and children are tear-gassed and sprayed with capisicum spray when they refuse to obey orders. Sometimes, the stolen pets are not controllable or refuse to obey the commands of the thieves, leading to a round of beatings. The officer refused to obey the guard's instructions and continued on his merry way. Harrisburg police say the pastors refused to obey their orders to stay more than 50 feet from the park. Synonyms carry out, perform, act on, execute, discharge, put into effect, implement, fulfil, meet 1.2 Behave in accordance with (a general principle, natural law, etc.) the universe was complex but it obeyed certain rules Example sentencesExamples Both generators obey the first ground rule of satire: meticulous observation. Bellaria's death obeys the principle brought out in Ovid, that the fulfillment of the wish to know the object of desire only circumvents the logic of desire and destroys the object itself. The distribution of probability amplitudes obeys wave-like equations, the amplitude changing in space-time like a wave does. Though sympathetic toward General Tang, Li said he still felt compelled to criticize General Tang for not obeying the moral principles of the military to never reprove superior officers. No matter that we didn't obey the golden rules - we were adults who could look after ourselves. This field obeys the expected equations of motion for an electromagnetic vector potential in four spacetime dimensions. According to them citizens must live and obey the governing rules of their society, but only contractually. He said obedience brought about prosperity to any body that vowed to look to obeying God's principles. It can have that appearance only if it appears to obey certain principles. The world looked on, deaf to pleas to intervene, and even when the president last week removed freedom of the press, the Commonwealth only uttered pious warnings about obeying democratic principles. The melancholic's experience is very different, partly because the loss being grieved rarely obeys the reality principle. A love story between Adele and Rannulph could have obeyed cinematic formulas, but it doesn't. The most satisfying examples of it occur when the nonsense operates according to the rules of an anarchic universe, and obeys logic within this context. These two characteristics appear to be stable under many growth conditions and their inheritance obeys the rules of normal Mendelian genetics. Well, that is until I am lynched by my fellow passengers for not obeying the unwritten rules of travel on the London Underground. Sure web space is not free space, but you'd think a website especially devoted to dissenting opinions would tend to obey its own principles. I want to strictly obey the principle that any difference theoretically impossible to detect is no difference at all. One need only consider Black Holes to see how Existence obeys rules which are difficult for our minds to accept. They also proceeded to explore the reasons why gases do not always behave ideally and obey this equation. So the Planck length arises naturally when we ask what is the minimal size object we can make which doesn't collapse into a black hole and which obeys the uncertainty principle. Origin Middle English: from Old French obeir, from Latin oboedire, from ob- ‘in the direction of’ + audire ‘hear’.
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