Catch
Catch verb - To take physical control or possession of (something) suddenly or forcibly.
Obey
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Note that these items obey the trope perfectly, following you around literally forever as long as you don't catch them or change zones, and it's easy to outrun them on a fast flying mount.
Source: Precision-Guided Boomerang -
When he tells her to take the safety catch off the gun, she goes to obey.
Source: Series / The Avengers -
He Who Fights Monsters: Eben seems to have become this from fighting John Blackwell Hugh Mann: Abaddon doesn't do an especially good job pretending to be Melissa, and ends up holding Nick at scissor-point to make the others obey when they catch on.
Source: Series / The Secret Circle
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