[oh-bey] 
| 1. | to comply with or follow the commands, restrictions, wishes, or instructions of: to obey one's parents. |
| 2. | to comply with or follow (a command, restriction, wish, instruction, etc.). |
| 3. | (of things) to respond conformably in action to: The car obeyed the slightest touch of the steering wheel. |
| 4. | to submit or conform in action to (some guiding principle, impulse, one's conscience, etc.). |
| 5. | to be obedient: to agree to obey. |
| o·bey (ō-bā') v. o·beyed, o·bey·ing, o·beys v. tr.
To behave obediently. [Middle English obeien, from Old French obeir, from Latin oboedīre, to listen to : ob-, to; see ob- + audīre, to hear; see au- in Indo-European roots.] o·bey'er n. |