obedient

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to obey someone or something
obeyChildren must obey their parents.
followAll religions guide youths to follow the teachings of elders and parents.
complyThere are serious penalties for failure to comply with the regulations.
observePeople must observe the law.
adhere toThey failed to adhere to the terms of the agreement.
abide byPlayers must abide by the referee's decision.

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according to the law, rules, etc.
according toIf we do not act according to the rules laid down for such cases, there will be chaos.
in line withWhat she did was not always completely in line with the law.
in accordance withThe council has not acted in accordance with its obligations.
obeyIf they don't obey the rules, they will be asked to leave.
followWe are obliged to follow the law in this matter.
[ T ]
to behave according to a scientific principle: 遵守，遵循（科学定律）
Falling objects obey the law of gravity.自由落体遵循引力定律。
[ T ]
If your body or part of your body does not obey you, it does not work in the way it should: （身体或身体某部位）听从使唤
She was so tired her legs just wouldn't obey her any longer.她疲惫不堪，再也迈不动腿了。
He hated being in the army because he had to obey commands.他讨厌当兵，因为当兵必须服从命令。
With careful training, a dog will obey its master completely.受过精心训练的狗会完全听从主人的指令。
The role of the police is to ensure that the law is obeyed.警察的职责就是确保法律得到遵守。
Have you been obeying the rules?
He was disciplined for failing to obey orders.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Obeying & breaking the law
abide
abide by something
adhere
adhere to something
afoul
bac
buck
commission
comply
contravene
derogation
disobey
enforcer
fall foul of somethingidiom
go by the book
guiltiness
infringement
shalt
venal
violation

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obey | American Dictionary

obey
verb[ I/T ]
us/oʊˈbeɪ/
to do what you are told or expected to do according to someone in authority or a rule or law:
[ I ]The toddler refused to obey.
[ T ]Residents are expected to obey the house rules.

Examples of obey

obey
Obviously, these can be represented as languages over the output alphabet, namely as the set of outputs that obey them.
It is straightforward to check the signs obey the partitioning condition.
Its apparent diversity nonetheless obeys certain formative laws, the expressive and a priori structuring principles of the human mind itself.
They paid taxes, obeyed administrators and contributed to military conscription, but strived to maintain cultural hegemony over what they considered as their sacred space.
Or we might say that by entering the military service, the private has tacitly or explicitly promised to obey orders from his superiors.
In return for obeying the type rules, the programmer is rewarded with compile-time error messages instead of run-time bugs.
They claimed to be simply obeying a directive that originated from no known source.
These relationships can never be grasped as merely causal, obeying some clear principle of mathematical logic.
We may wish to consider only those sorted link graphs that obey some condition.
Authority refers to the rightful exercise of power with the claim to be obeyed and relates to the legitimacy of a government branch.
The most common reasons that men cited were barrenness, wives' adultery, not keeping house correctly, and wives not obeying them or challenging their authority.
Although thousands of people obeyed the law and the forestry officials' procedures, most probably did not.
Or is it a duty to obey the law to the extent that we are seriously expected to obey the law?
The moral obligation to obey the norm is not yet a political obligation not to resist the might of the sovereign enforcer of the norm.
The individuals' perception is that taxes and other laws must be obeyed.
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