Disobey
[dɪsə'beɪ] or ['dɪsə'be]
Definition
(verb.) refuse to go along with; refuse to follow; be disobedient; 'He disobeyed his supervisor and was fired'.
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Definition
(v. t.) Not to obey; to neglect or refuse to obey (a superior or his commands, the laws, etc.); to transgress the commands of (one in authority); to violate, as an order; as, refractory children disobey their parents; men disobey their Maker and the laws.
(v. i.) To refuse or neglect to obey; to violate commands; to be disobedient.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Refuse to obey, break the command of, refuse submission to.[2]. Transgress, violate, infringe, set at defiance, go counter to.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See OBEY]
Typist: Silvia
Definition
v.t. to neglect or refuse to obey or do what is commanded.
Typist: Suzy
Unserious Contents or Definition
v.t. To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command.
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Examples
- Is it obeying your husband to disobey him on the wital subject of his business? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I knew that I was preparing for myself a deadly torture; but I was the slave, not the master of an impulse, which I detested, yet could not disobey. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- If you dare to disobey my orders, I have a way to silence you. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- As to my aunt's letter, it simply amounted, poor soul, to this--that she dare not disobey her medical man. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Have I ever wished to disobey you? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Worcester declared that he would not go, while I insisted that he should not disobey his father. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He intended to disobey it again. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Who could know that Lydgate's prescription would not be better disobeyed than followed, since there was still no sleep? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- How my orders came to be disobeyed is a question to which I don't know the answer. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She had already secretly disobeyed him by asking her father to help them, and he had ended decisively by saying, I am more likely to want help myself. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And he may have tampered with the patient--he may have disobeyed my orders. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Fred had received this order before, and had secretly disobeyed it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Why had he disobeyed his father, who had been always so generous to him? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Both she and my son disobeyed me in marrying; therefore I have no interest in their households. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- All through this war we have suffered from a lack of discipline and from the disobeying of orders and I will wait a while still for the _Ingl閟_. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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