<p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to comply with or follow the commands, restrictions, wishes, or instructions of: to obey one's parents.</li><li>to comply with or follow (a command, restriction, wish, instruction, etc.).</li><li>(of things) to respond conformably in action to: The car obeyed the slightest touch of the steering wheel.</li><li>to submit or conform in action to (some guiding principle, impulse, one's conscience, etc.).</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to be obedient: to agree to obey.</li></ul>