1 ~ (to sb/sth) (with sth) (rather formal) to give a spoken or written answer to sb/sth
SYNREPLY:
[V] I asked him his name, but he didn't respond. * She never responded to my letter. * More than fifty people responded to the advertisement. * [Vspeech] 'I'm not sure,' she responded. * [Vthat] When asked about the company's future, the director responded that he remained optimistic. -< ANSWER
2 [V] ~ (to sth) (with sth / by doing sth) to do sth as a reaction to sth that sb has said or done
SYNREACT:
How did they respond to the news? * The government responded by banning all future demonstrations.
3 [V] ~ (to sth/sb) to react quickly or in the correct way to sth/sb:
The car responds very well to the controls. * You can rely on him to respond to a challenge.
4 [V] ~ (to sth) to improve as a result of a particular kind of treatment:
The infection did not respond to the drugs.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for respond is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is respond a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, respond is tagged as verb.
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