Dictionary
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.).
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v.i.
to be obedient:
to agree to obey. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.