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say it: kuhm-PLAHY
comply is a verb meaning "act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes". It carries one recorded sense.
act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes
“He complied with my instructions”
“You must comply or else!”
“Follow these simple rules”
“abide by the rules”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for comply come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.