0 present 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.
Clarification requests play an important role in effective conversations, and children must learn the conversational rules for interpreting and responding to such requests.
Their roles in friendships changed too in that they needed to determine how their friends were responding to their illness and adapt to that.
An analysis of maternal responding confirmed this pattern, showing a distinct difference in reproductiveness in responding depending on the word-like-ness of the child utterances.
