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o•bey



Pronunciation: (ō-bā'), [key]
—v.t.
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.).

—v.i.
to be obedient: to agree to obey.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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