Obeyed vs Obeying - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between obeyed and obeying

is that obeyed is (obey) while obeying is .

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(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 [...].

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

* * 1000 English basic words

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