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
comply
contravene
derogation
disobey
enforcer
fall foul of somethingidiom
go by the book
guiltiness
guilty
infringement
shalt
venal
violation

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Occurring and happening
Inability and awkwardness

Examples of obeying

obeying

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

In return for obeying the type rules, the programmer is rewarded with compile-time error messages instead of run-time bugs.
These relationships can never be grasped as merely causal, obeying some clear principle of mathematical logic.
Once agreed laws are in place, however, my obligation to abide by those laws is not conditional upon your obeying.
Like the imperative construction, the diminutive and inchoative affixations produce a syllable obeying a familiar condition : codas may consist only of homorganic nasals.
Even if morality, properly understood, has no extra-moral purpose, one can worry that obeying it frustrates too many of our extra-moral purposes.
Each stream flows largely independently of the others, containing its own dynamics and obeying its own logic.
Nothing is more natural than obeying the dictates of habit.
Each individual child was classified as either obeying or disobeying each grammatical principle.
Each child was then classified as "obeying" or "disobeying" each principle.
If < 0, then only trivial isomonodromy transformations obeying the conditions (i)-(iv) exist.
The robot stops the paddle, obeying this command.
These commands presumably would be promulgated in such a way that every agent obeying them would recognize their divine source.
The second is not just obeying orders; he advances because he believes it is his patriotic duty to advance.
They may communicate this information to other components, obeying a simple protocol for identifying them and determining the information they can provide.
Largely, they were former soldiers, used to enforcing and obeying strict military discipline.
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