RESPOND

react, respond

(verb) show a response or a reaction to something

respond

(verb) respond favorably or as hoped; “The cancer responded to the aggressive therapy”

answer, reply, respond

(verb) react verbally; “She didn’t want to answer”; “answer the question”; “We answered that we would accept the invitation”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

respond (third-person singular simple present responds, present participle responding, simple past and past participle responded)

(transitive, intransitive) To say something in return; to answer; to reply.

(intransitive) To act in return; to carry out an action or in return to a force or stimulus; to do something in response.

(ambitransitive) To correspond with; to suit.

(transitive) To satisfy; to answer.

(intransitive) To be liable for payment.

Noun

respond (plural responds)

A response.

A versicle or short anthem chanted at intervals during the reading of a lection.

(architecture) A half-pillar, pilaster, or any corresponding device engaged in a wall to receive the impost of an arch.

Anagrams

• Ponders, ponders

Source: Wiktionary

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Re*spond" (r*spnd"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Responded; p. pr. & vb. n. Responding.] Etym: [OF. respondre, F. répondre, fr. L. respondere, responsum; pref. re- re- + spondere to promise. See Sponsor.]

1. To say somethin in return; to answer; to reply; as, to respond to a question or an argument.

2. To show some effect in return to a force; to act in response; to accord; to correspond; to suit. A new affliction strings a new cord in the heart, which responds to some new note of complaint within the wide scale of human woe. Buckminster. To every theme responds thy various lay. Broome.

3. To render satisfaction; to be answerable; as, the defendant is held to respond in damages. [U.S.]

Syn.

– To answer; reply; rejoin. See Reply.

Re*spond", v. t.

1. To answer; to reply.

2. To suit or accord with; to correspond to. [R.] For his great deeds respond his speeches great. Fairfax.

Re*spond", n.

1. An answer; a response. [R.]

2. (Eccl.)

Definition: A short anthem sung at intervals during the reading of a chapter.

3. (Arch.)

Definition: A half pier or pillar attached to a wall to support an arch. Oxf. Gloss.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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