verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
follow/obey your instinct(s) (= do what your instinct tells you to do )
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You should obey your instincts when dealing with strangers.
obey a command
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Your dog will soon learn to obey your commands.
obey an impulse formal ( also yield to an impulse literary ) (= do something because you have a sudden very strong desire to do it )
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Yielding to an impulse, she called him on her mobile phone.
obey an order
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He refused to obey this order.
obey the law
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Citizens have a duty to obey the law.
obey/follow a rule
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She wasn’t going to obey their silly rules.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
command
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But where servility and not obedience is called for, then the command to obey clearly does not apply.
husband
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But would she obey her husband ?
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That meant obeying my husband and that his decisions were final.
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Within marriage a wife was generally expected to obey her husband .
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But it was a wife's duty to obey her husband in all that was not sin.
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Girls of her day were taught to obey their in-laws and husbands .
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You get married and the Bible says you are to obey your husband .
instruction
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You've got to obey instructions - to the letter.
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People are supposed to observe the sign-posts and obey the instructions .
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Aggrieved, she refused to obey instructions to sit and watch the dancers and took a side door into the cloisters.
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First, some accept its authority and obey its instructions because they are binding on them.
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You are obliged to obey a reasonable instruction given by an authorised superior.
law
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The first great law is to obey ...
obligation
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Citizens have an obligation to obey law by virtue of the fact that it is made in accordance with established procedures.
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There is no social obligation to obey the law.
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The basic limitation on the obligation to obey the state arose from the fundamental purpose of the state.
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It has, in fact, been argued that he has greater obligation to obey because of his participation.
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But an obligation to obey the law as it is understood in political writings today is a mere primafacie obligation.
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Is there a primafacie obligation to obey the law which transcends the limits of the state's authority?
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It may entail an obligation to obey certain of the more politically sensitive laws.
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I will postpone consideration of the obligation to obey the law until the last section of this chapter.
order
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Sometimes your questions were stray snipes over no-man's-land, bringing sharp hands and the order you had to obey .
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Review the multiplicity of language-games in the following examples, and in others: Giving orders , and obeying them.
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And, since he seems to attach importance to the language-game of giving orders and obeying them, let us begin there.
parent
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But Gary liked an orderly life and believed that chil-dren should obey their parents .
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Children, obey your parents in all things; for this is well pleasing to the Lord...
people
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In this modern world we must both see that people obey the law and also be compassionate.
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For the most part, they are honorable people who obey the law and behave reasonably well.
rule
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It seemed that she might sit anywhere she chose, that there were no rules to obey .
■ VERB
refuse
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What turning-point of history will I decline, refuse , obey ?
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Upon regaining consciousness, he'd panicked when his limbs, leaden and numb, had refused to obey him.
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She made a little moan, her head refusing to obey her and tilting back in pleasure at the touch of his hands.
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When the order was repeated, he refused to obey and later resigned.
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Aggrieved, she refused to obey instructions to sit and watch the dancers and took a side door into the cloisters.
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The deputy commander reportedly has twice refused to obey the commander's direct orders on troop deployment.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All citizens must obey the law and be loyal to the Constitution.
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Drivers obey speed laws only when they think the police are near.
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I expect my students to obey me.
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I knew that if I didn't obey , I would be shot.
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Look how well their dog obeys.
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She was one of those people who obeyed the rules and was never irresponsible.
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Soldiers must always obey their commanding officer.
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War criminals tried to justify their actions by saying that they were only obeying orders.
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You can teach most dogs to obey simple commands.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But an obligation to obey the law as it is understood in political writings today is a mere primafacie obligation.
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Girls of her day were taught to obey their in-laws and husbands.
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He fought to make his fingers remain closed on the dagger, but they would not obey him.
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None of them actually obey the formal theory which suggests that altruism towards kin in human societies is directly in proportion to shared genes.
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The basic limitation on the obligation to obey the state arose from the fundamental purpose of the state.
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The mere recognition of a duty to obey achieves for the government what an overwhelming application of violence would not satisfactorily achieve.
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You've got to obey instructions - to the letter.