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verb (used with object)
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.).
verb (used without object)
5.
to be obedient: to agree to obey.
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Obeying
is always a great word to know.
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Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English obeien < Old French obeir < Latin oboedīre, equivalent to ob- ob- + audīre to hear; -oe- for expected -ū- is unclear
1250–1300; Middle English obeien < Old French obeir < Latin oboedīre, equivalent to ob- ob- + audīre to hear; -oe- for expected -ū- is unclear
Related forms
o·bey·a·ble, adjective
o·bey·er, noun
o·bey·ing·ly, adverb
un·o·beyed, adjective
un·o·bey·ing, adjective
EXPANDwell-o·beyed, adjective
COLLAPSE
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Word Origin & History
obey
late 13c., from O.Fr. obeir, from L. oboedire "obey, pay attention to, give ear," lit. "listen to," from ob "to" + audire "listen, hear" (see audience). Same sense development is in cognate O.E. hiersumnian.
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