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Meaning respond meaning

What does respond mean?
Definitions in simple English

respond Verb

— If you respond to something or someone, you do something in reaction to it. I try to respond to emails as soon as I get them. We sent a message to them two weeks ago, but nobody has responded so far. The police responded forcefully to the problems.

respond

— verb (= react) show a response or a reaction to something — verb (= answer) react verbally She didn't want to answer answer the question We answered that we would accept the invitation — verb respond favorably or as hoped The cancer responded to the aggressive therapy

Synonyms respond synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as respond?

respond English » English

answer reply react retort counter accept return acknowledge echo satisfy retaliate response reply to repay rejoin reciprocate plead correspond acknowledgement translate thank tell talkback take in charge stick serve see riposte reward reverberate responsible for respond to represent repay a favour pour out pilaster oppose occur meet live up to key interrupt greet give answer give a respond to fill field feedback feed back examine carefully

Topics respond topics

What do people use respond to talk about?
Language and thought Think

Remember
Language and thought Communication Say Ask

Answer
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble

Respond to trouble
Grammar General words Do

React, respond
Person Healthy Sick

Recover from sickness

Conjugation respond conjugation

How do you conjugate respond?

respond · verb

Examples respond examples

How do I use respond in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Did Tom respond?
Each one of us is unique in the way that we respond to situations.
You must respond quickly.
Our bodies respond to our feelings.
Children learn to respond to rhythmical sounds from a very young age.
Please respond at your earliest convenience.
He didn't respond to my question.
The president was nice enough to respond to my letter.
How did Tom respond?
Don't respond.
Tom will respond.
Tom won't respond.
Tom smiled, but didn't respond.
Please respond.
You must respond at once to the letter.
I can respond to his question.
I will respond to both of your letters.
I'm not able to respond to all of your questions.
He doesn't respond to the stimulus.
Don't respond to that.
They'll respond.

Movie subtitles

But unless we decide how to respond to this quickly.
How would we respond?
Merlyn you respond to me its security.
I respond to your toast in a fitting manner.
Me, surely. Because! don't respond to the first woman's advances.
We won't respond to your signal, but we'll be here every night at the same time until your mission is completed.
People fall in love, as they put it, because they respond to a certain hair coloring, or vocal tones or mannerisms that remind them of their parents.
Why shouldn't I respond to beauty as you did to the flowers?
Car 702, Fifth Precinct, 509, Seventh Precinct and 110 will respond.
How do you respond?
Respond!
I respond in kind.
If it's Mizushima, he'll respond to what the bird says.
Volna, respond!
You can't be for to hide your feelings when soul is respond to soul.
You know, different people respond to different things.
Some people respond to rub-a-dub on the forehead.
People fall in love, as they put it, because they respond to a certain hair coloring, or vocal tones or mannerisms that remind them of their parents. Or sometimes, for no reason at all.
Call them until they respond.
I'm sure in time your husband will respond to treatment Mrs Horton.
Kobayashi! Respond! Kobayashi!
If it is Mizushima, he might respond to what the bird says.
I now ask the Empress to address you, dear delegates of the Hungarian Nation, and respond to the question you posed.
What should I respond Quintilio? If you something happened, I would be responsible.
Jews seem to respond better to their own kind.
Must I respond by breaking one of mine?
How shall I respond?
You got drunk and kept coming at me daringly, but it's not like I could respond to that.
Some people respond to rub-a-dub on the forehead. Others drop off to music.
Are you able to respond to the questions I'm asking?
I'm sorry I did not respond when you called Otto Franzen.
Souls respond scientifically to prayer.
The controls don't respond!
The controls don't respond.
It's none of my business what the cad does. I respond in kind.
The police don't respond to melancholy looks.
He fails to respond to any normal stimulation.
I respond for her.
Be ready to respond when I'll call for you! Your Majesty, it is my most valuable duty to serve you and be your servant!

News and current affairs

Like Pavlov's dog, Alex is being programmed to respond with nausea to violence and sex.
Second, short-term interest rates were so low that additional cuts would spook the financial markets: if even the Fed thought conditions warranted cuts, the argument went, businesses would respond not by increasing their investments but by reducing them.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, most economies failed to respond to the adjustment programs demanded by the IMF and World Bank.
It is harder because the binding constraints on growth are usually country-specific and do not respond well to standardized recipes.
A decentralized system will respond better to local needs and avoid an over-bureaucratic public sector.
Democrats respond that such a one-sided approach would be economically harmful and socially unjust.
When international finance economists sketch this scenario, domestically oriented macroeconomists respond that it sounds like a case of incompetent monetary policy.
Although people and rats fear different things, the manner in which the rat and human brain and body respond to danger is similar.
These are memories in the sense that they cause your body to respond in a particular way as a result of past experiences.
In response, however, more pragmatic voters are increasingly irate about political paralysis and their governing institutions' inability to respond to the preferences of a clear majority of the population.
The EU countries have failed twice in their attempt to respond to this challenge - once by half-hearted sanctions; now by lifting them.
How to respond to these objections?
If social tensions rise, China's government is likely to respond with greater repression, which will bode ill both for its relations with the West and for its medium-term political stability.
But all public actors, not just the police, must respond to urban problems.
If it can, it will be better able to respond not only to the Russian challenge, but also to many of the other challenges that characterize today's rapidly shifting global environment.
Africa's media must respond with its own analyses, explanations, and narratives.
Meanwhile, our most fundamental institutions - schools, police, and the courts - must be re-engineered to reflect and respond to the diversity of our communities, which is now a fact of life.
If Nakasone, who now urges Koizumi to stop the Yasukuni pilgrimage, were to respond to Aso, he might simply extend the analogy: it is not in Japan's national interest to continue to inhale Koizumi's second-hand smoke.
PARIS - By chance, it appears that the US Congress will decide on or around September 11 whether to endorse President Barack Obama's proposal to respond militarily to the Syrian government's use of poison gas against civilians.
It has not, even as the European Union continues to respond inadequately to its own slow-moving solvency crises.
A large national debt also limits the government's ability to respond to emergencies, including both military threats and economic downturns.
To this, international finance economists respond that the Fed does not have the power to do so.
How the generals respond to the ASEAN request will be an important signal of the regime's intentions.
The US would, of course, need to respond to the conclusion of any trilateral Northeast Asian FTA in order to preserve its own role in global trade - and in the supply chains that dominate the Asian economies.
But, in the aftermath of setbacks in regions where it intervened, and with heightened economic distress at home, the US finds itself uncertain about how to respond to changing global events.

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