0 past simple and past participle of respond
1 to say or do something as a reaction to something that has been said or done:
[ + speech ] To every question, he responded "I don't know."
He responded by marching off and slamming the door behind him.
How did she respond to the news?
[ + that ] When the tax office wrote to me demanding unpaid income tax, I responded that I had been working abroad since 1998.
The police respond to emergencies (= arrive and are ready to deal with emergencies) in just a few minutes.
It remains to be seen whether the cancer will respond to treatment.
For patients who do not respond to drug treatment, surgery is a possible option.
The president responded angrily to the charge that she had lost touch with her country's people.
She said how much she appreciated the overwhelming generosity of the public in responding to the appeal.
The unit responded strongly when the edge was at a 0-pixel disparity in the middle of its receptive field.
The diplomats responded with varying degrees of acuteness to the logic of the situation.
The same test items presented in an oral or written form and responded to in the same manner led to consistent differences in performance.
