Engage and Obey

Engage

Engage verb - To hold the attention of.

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Obey and engage are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Obey" instead a verb "Engage".

Nearby Words: engagement, engaging, engagingly

Obey verb - To act according to the commands of.

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Engage and obey are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Engage" instead a verb "Obey".

Nearby Word: obeying

party	engage party	obey party
time	engage time	obey time
way	engage way	obey way
bad	engage bad	obey bad
Other words: anyone, humans, powers.

Any pilot with a too-itchy trigger finger who doesn't obey the rules of engagement (identify, then engage) will come home to find a nice neat court-martial summons waiting for them.

Source: Friend or Foe
In Sergey Lukyanenko's Genome, the Blue Bloods on the planet Heraldica are shown to engage in an old-fashioned horse-mounted hunt, except they're hunting their genetically-engineered servants, who obey their every wish.

Source: Hunting the Most Dangerous Game
Robots must obey the Three Laws, but many of the stories place a Robot in a situation where strict adherence to the Three Laws is impossible, and so the Robot must engage in some judicious moral wrangling to reach a resolution.

Source: Loophole Abuse / Literature

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