RESPECT

[verb] [T]If you respect something or someone, you treat it or them with kindness and care.We should respect the environment and not pollute it.If you respect someone's rights or customs, you accept their importance and do nothing that would harm them or cause that person offence.The agreement will respect the rights of both nations.The president has pledged to respect the existing frontiers between the two countries.I would appreciate it if you would respect my privacy (= accept that I want to be alone and do not interrupt me).If you respect someone's wishes, you do what they asked to have done.His children respected his last wishes and held a simple funeral for him.