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Respond   /rɪspˈɑnd/  /rispˈɑnd/   Listen
Respond

verb
(past & past part. responded; pres. part. responding)
1.
Show a response or a reaction to something.  Synonym: react.
2.
React verbally.  Synonyms: answer, reply.  "Answer the question" , "We answered that we would accept the invitation"
3.
Respond favorably or as hoped.



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"Respond" Quotes from Famous Books



... as he put his arm through mine, and we both began to swing back and forth on the gate. "It is so marvelous to have a woman respond to your every mood as you do to mine. It is like having in one's possession an angel ...
— Over Paradise Ridge - A Romance • Maria Thompson Daviess
... [Taking out watch.] I hope our friends will cordially respond, for the sake of my ...
— Dolly Reforming Herself - A Comedy in Four Acts • Henry Arthur Jones
... that he forfeits dignity if he speaks with his whole heart: no woman need fear she forfeits her womanly attributes if she responds as her heart bids her respond. "Perfect love casteth out fear" is as true now as when the maxim was ...
— Searchlights on Health - The Science of Eugenics • B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols
... had long been the reverse of strong. Whether from early delicacy, or from exposure to hardships in Asia, his constitution was never able to respond to the demands made upon it by the society of the capital. The weariness he expresses was often the result of physical prostration. The sketch he has left of himself [39] suggests a physique neither interesting nor vigorous. He was at 44 short, ...
— A History of Roman Literature - From the Earliest Period to the Death of Marcus Aurelius • Charles Thomas Cruttwell
... Kelburne arrived, on the first day that the court opened, I was summoned to respond to the offences laid to my charge, if any charge of offence it may be called, wherein the purpose of the court was seemingly to search out opinions that might serve as matter to justify the infliction of the fines,—the whole ...
— Ringan Gilhaize - or The Covenanters • John Galt


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