responded

3 definitions • 7 examples

past simple and past participle of

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."

I asked her what the time was, but she didn't respond.

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.

If diseases or patients respond to treatment, the treatment begins to cure them:

It remains to be seen whether the cancer will respond to treatment.