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. Benji Backer from Wisconsin:

   As a proud American, as a life-long conservative and as a young person, I urge you to accept climate change for the reality it is and respond accordingly. We need your leadership.

2. Mick Ryan:

   They will want not only to surprise the Russians with the time and location of their main and supporting thrusts, but will want to generate an operational tempo that overwhelms the Russian ability to respond quickly or at the right time with the right force.

3. Christine Cooper:

   Echidnas can’t pant, sweat or lick to lose heat, so they could be impacted by increasing temperature and our work shows alternative ways that echidnas can lose heat, explaining how they can be active under hotter conditions than previously thought, understanding the thermal biology of echidnas is also important to predict how they might respond to a warming climate.

4. Yukari Sasaki:

   Converting an office building into a hotel is an ideal way to respond to the immediate needs for hotel rooms, building a hotel from scratch costs too much money now because of high construction costs.

5. Josh Blackman:

   If the court upholds the travel ban on statutory grounds, it will signal that Congress has for decades vested the president with the flexibility to respond to an unforeseeable national security dynamic.