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Respond

verb

(past & past part. responded; pres. part. responding)

Show a response or a reaction to something. Synonym: react.

React verbally. Synonyms: answer, reply. "Answer the question" , "We answered that we would accept the invitation"

Respond favorably or as hoped.

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"Respond" Quotes from Famous Books

... indeed, or perhaps very timid with women, not to respond in a more human way to the advances of a girl like Nathalie Haldin—I thought to myself. Those lofty and solitary existences (I remembered the words suddenly) make a young man shy and ...

— Under Western Eyes • Joseph Conrad

... friend demands assistance, and he has resolved to dare all, to undertake all to respond to his appeal. Like a lamp deprived of air, his mind has revived at this idea, that he can at last be useful to others than himself. The inhabitant of San Ambrosio shall be indebted to him for an ...

— The Solitary of Juan Fernandez, or The Real Robinson Crusoe • Joseph Xavier Saintine

... affairs of New France promised much for the country's prosperity; and every ship sailing to the St. Lawrence carried out a fresh batch of emigrants. For all of these the King paid out of his own pocket, and it cost him a pretty penny to respond to Intendant Talon's persistent appeals for more settlers. Agencies were established at several points in France to recruit colonists, and grants of money and land were held out as inducements to new settlers. In this way the King and Colbert managed to send out about three hundred men each ...

— Old Quebec - The Fortress of New France • Sir Gilbert Parker and Claude Glennon Bryan

... feeling that their star-spangled banner is crossed with the stripes of the slave, turn back to the history of their country, and recalling to mind the glorious deeds that their ancestors have accomplished under that flag, their hearts respond—"The Union for ever!" ...

— Lands of the Slave and the Free - Cuba, The United States, and Canada • Henry A. Murray

... smile returned. He would respond when he had heard certain other things. Then he would forget any one else but her—if there was any one else. Her heart leaped ...

— The Harbor of Doubt • Frank Williams

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