Crossword clues for answering
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Answer \An"swer\ ([a^]n"s[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Answered ([a^]n"s[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Answering.] [OE. andswerien, AS. andswerian, andswarian, to answer, fr. andswaru, n., answer. See Answer, n.]
To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation.
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To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to (a question, remark, etc.); to respond to.
She answers him as if she knew his mind.
--Shak.So spake the apostate angel, though in pain: . . . And him thus answered soon his bold compeer.
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To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification, and the like; to refute.
No man was able to answer him a word.
--Matt. xxii. 46.These shifts refuted, answer thine appellant.
--Milton.The reasoning was not and could not be answered.
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To be or act in return or response to. Hence:
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To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, demand; as, he answered my claim upon him; the servant answered the bell.
This proud king . . . studies day and night To answer all the debts he owes unto you.
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To render account to or for.
I will . . . send him to answer thee.
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To atone; to be punished for.
And grievously hath C[ae]zar answered it.
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To be opposite to; to face.
The windows answering each other, we could just discern the glowing horizon them.
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To be or act an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay. [R.]
Money answereth all things.
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To be or act in accommodation, conformity, relation, or proportion to; to correspond to; to suit.
Weapons must needs be dangerous things, if they answered the bulk of so prodigious a person.
--Swift.
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Wiktionary
n. The act of giving an answer. vb. (present participle of answer English)
WordNet
adj. replying; "an answering glance"; "an answering smile" [syn: respondent]
Usage examples of "answering".
One day, vexed at my answering her question as to the reason of my change towards her by stating that I had no cause for it, she, told me in a tone of commiseration that I was jealous of Cordiani.
I challenged him to explain his reasons for refusing to give her absolution, but he closed my lips by answering very coolly that he could not betray the secrets of the confessional.
It Is Short but Happy--Don Antonio Casanova--Don Lelio Caraffa--I Go to Rome in Very Agreeable Company, and Enter the Service of Cardinal Acquaviva--Barbara--Testaccio--Frascati I had no difficulty in answering the various questions which Doctor Gennaro addressed to me, but I was surprised, and even displeased, at the constant peals of laughter with which he received my answers.
Her answering in the negative made me understand that, if I had pressed her a little, she would have allowed me to see her lovely pupil, and perhaps it was with that intention that she had contrived to speak to me, but I felt great reluctance to do anything to displease my worthy host.
While he was answering with much wit some jokes of the count, I kept looking at him with some anxiety, but he came up to me and embraced me warmly.
The bishop without answering me referred me to his chancellor, to whom I repeated all I had said to the bishop, but with words calculated to irritate rather than to soften, and certainly not likely to obtain the release of the captain.
I was listening without answering one word, but, after all, I was listening, and De la Haye, perceiving his advantage, would not leave me, and ordered dinner.
In such a position a man has not the courage to insult a woman, and, instead of answering, I set to work at once, without meeting even with that show of resistance which sharpens the appetite.
I was answering him in an indirect way, looking all the time at Camille, who was laughing.
Until now I have earned twenty crowns, but I am afraid the lady will get tired of it, and you can make me earn two sequins by answering a line.
My painful lumbago has alone prevented me from answering your short note yesterday, to express to you my regrets, and the love which has been enhanced in me by your generosity, alas!
I am compelled to pass it in answering the dispatches I have received.
On my answering in the affirmative he fell on his knees, and drawing an enormous rosary from his pocket he cast his gaze all round the cell.
Instead of answering he went off to sleep, and did not awake for two hours after, when he asked if he could put off taking the oath.
Just then the marquis came in, saying he would give me my revenge and without answering I went downstairs as if to come back again, but I ran out of the inn, got into my carriage, and drove off, promising a good fee to the postillion if he would put his horses at a gallop.