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Obeyed vs Obe - What's the difference?

obeyed | obe |

As a verb obeyed

is (obey).

As a noun obe is

a particular subdivision of ancient laconia.

obeyed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (obey)

  • obey

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To do as ordered by (a person, institution etc), to act according to the bidding of.
  • To do as one is told.
  • (obsolete) To be obedient, compliant (to a given law, restriction etc.).
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.iv:
  • They were all taught by Triton, to obay / To the long raynes, at her commaundement [...].

    Antonyms

    * disobey * defy * rebel * resist * violate (especially rules )

    obe

    English

    Initialism

    (Initialism) (head)
  • Officer of the Order of the British Empire
  • Office of Bilingual Education
  • Office of Business Economics (US)
  • Operating-Basis Earthquake
  • Oregon Board of Education
  • Ottawa Board Of Education
  • Out of Body Experience
  • Out of Buggy Experience (Powerkiting slang)
  • Outcome-Based Education
  • Overcome / overtaken by events (i.e., now obsolete)
  • Anagrams

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