Synonyms for respond
rɪˈspɒndre·spond

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1. respond

   Synonyms:
   answer, reply, rejoin, correspond, tally, accord, meet, suit

   Antonyms:
   propound, disagree, disaccord, jar, differ

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1. react, respondverb

   show a response or a reaction to something

   Synonyms:
   reply, react, oppose, answer

2. answer, reply, respondverb

   react verbally

   "She didn't want to answer"; "answer the question"; "We answered that we would accept the invitation"

   Synonyms:
   answer, reply, serve, react, do, suffice, resolve

3. respondverb

   respond favorably or as hoped

   "The cancer responded to the aggressive therapy"

   Synonyms:
   reply, react, answer

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1. respondverb

   Synonyms:
   answer, reply, rejoin

2. respondverb

   Synonyms:
   [Poetical.] correspond, suit, be agreeable

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1. List of paraphrases for "respond":

   react, answer, responding, reply, meet, response, address, cope, satisfy, deal, intervene, comply, replying, answering, cater, accommodate, responsive, replied, reaction, adapt, fulfil, responded, serve, meeting, fulfill, responds

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1. Steve Vladeck:

   One of the questions the Court has agreed to take up in these cases is whether, in delegating the power to The EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, Congress exceeded those limits, if the Court says yes, that will not just curtail the EPA's power to respond to climate change in a moment in which it's hard to imagine that Congress will fill the gap ; it would have enormous implications for -- and impose far greater limits on -- the federal government's regulatory power writ large.

2. Arianna Fitts:

   We'd be out in public [ and ] Carmen Bolden'd just wave at strangers with a smile and people would respond to that, very intelligent, very curious about things, and Carmen Bolden also had a little bit of sass sometimes too.

3. Gene Dodaro:

   Under the law, which was passed in 1974... the President can propose to Congress to rescind the money. The only way that would hold is if Congress says, yes, we agree. And Congress has 45 days to respond, what this opinion says is if Comptroller General Gene Dodaro try to withhold the money, and don't give Congress the 45 days, and the money expires toward the end of the year, that's not a proper rescission.

4. Stefan Worrall:

   Throughout March, Japan failed to respond to rallies and improving risk appetite seen in the U.S. and elsewhere, and while some were hoping Japan would catch up, the past few days have opened up the possibility that the rest of the world may catch down instead, the market is now posing big questions of Abenomics.

5. Kelly Armstrong:

   Nobody overlapped. Everybody is working hard to make sure we are communicating with each other and we are forcing the Democrats to respond.