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 They were threatened with punishment if they disobeyed. obey. to refuse to do what someone with authority tells you to do, or refuse to obey a rule or law obey
); to transgress the commands of (one in authority); to violate, as an order; as, refractory children disobey their parents; men disobey their Maker and the laws