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- Dictionarydisobey/ˌdɪsəˈbeɪ/
verb
- 1. fail to obey (rules, a command, or someone in authority): "around 1,000 soldiers had disobeyed orders and surrendered"
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DISOBEY definition: 1. to refuse to do something that you are told to do: 2. to refuse to do something that you are…. Learn more.
: to fail to obey. disobeyer noun. Synonyms. defy. mock. rebel (against) See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of disobey in a Sentence. If you disobey, you will be severely punished. The soldier disobeyed the general's orders. He was afraid to disobey his father. The driver had disobeyed the law. Recent Examples on the Web.
verb. When someone disobeys a person or an order, they deliberately do not do what they have been told to do. ...a naughty boy who often disobeyed his mother and father. [VERB noun] He urged Russian soldiers to disobey orders if asked to fire on civilian targets. [VERB noun] They were threatened with punishment if they disobeyed. [VERB]
disobey (somebody/something) to refuse to do what a person, a law, an order, etc. tells you to do; to refuse to obey. He was punished for disobeying orders. How dare you disobey me! She sighed deeply but dared not disobey.
When you obey someone's rules, you follow them strictly. The verb disobey combines the Latin obedire, "serve, pay attention to, or listen," with dis, which here means "not." The original Latin version of disobey, inobedire, used in rather than dis.
disobey definition: to not do what you are told to do by someone in authority: . Learn more.
DISOBEY meaning: to not do what someone or something with authority tells you to do to refuse or fail to obey rules, laws, etc.
A complete guide to the word "DISOBEY": definitions, pronunciations, synonyms, grammar insights, collocations, examples, and translations.
verb. 1. defy, ignore, rebel, resist, disregard, refuse to obey, dig your heels in (informal), go counter to a naughty boy who often disobeyed his mother. 2. infringe, defy, refuse to obey, flout, violate, contravene, overstep, transgress, go counter to He was forever disobeying the rules.
to intentionally fail to do what you are told or expected to do; not obey: [ T ] Half of the city’s drivers tend to disobey rules and behave poorly. (Definition of disobey from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
