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• i asked him his name, but he didn't respond.
• she never responded to my letter.
• more than fifty people responded to the advertisement.
• ‘i'm not sure,’ she responded.

respond

1. to give a spoken or written answer to somebody/something
• synonym reply
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/reply_1
• I asked him his name, but he didn't respond.
• She never responded to my letter.
• More than fifty people responded to the advertisement.
• ‘I'm not sure,’ she responded.
• When asked about the company's future, the director responded that he remained optimistic.
• I’m writing to answer your questions
• I’m writing to reply to your questions.
• I haven’t answered her email yet.
• I knocked on the door but nobody answered.
• ‘I won’t let you down,’ he replied.
• The directors were unwilling to respond to questions.
• I’m writing in answer to your letter.
2. to do something as a reaction to something that somebody has said or done
• synonym react
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/react
• How did they respond to the news?
• The government responded by banning all future demonstrations.
3. to react quickly or in the correct way to something/somebody
• The car responds very well to the controls.
• You can rely on him to respond to a challenge.
4. to improve as a result of a particular kind of treatment
• The infection did not respond to the drugs.

Extra Examples

• Companies have to respond to the changing economic climate.
• He responded politely to her questions.
• He responded with a smile when she spoke.
• His condition failed to respond to the treatment.
• She wasn’t sure how he was likely to respond.
• The demonstrators threw stones and the police responded with tear gas.
• The government needs to listen to the public and respond accordingly.
• The government responded by tightening the law on gun ownership.
• The music seems to respond emotionally to the landscape.
• The plants readily respond to these stimuli.
• The system enables teachers to respond flexibly to the needs of their students.
• The teams responded magnificently to the challenge.
• The terrorists declared all-out war on the government and the government responded in kind.
• Their son is responding well to the treatment.
• We do not have a strategy. We merely respond to ideas from local people.
• We respond to business problems in creative ways.
• You can respond via email or phone.
• ‘I’m not sure,’ she responded.
• I asked him his name, but he didn’t respond.
• Members of the public responded immediately to the charity’s appeal for funds.
• When asked about the company’s future, the director responded that he remained optimistic.

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they respond
• he / she / it responds
• past simple responded
• past participle responded
• -ing form responding

Word Origin

• late Middle English (as a noun): from Old French, from respondre ‘to answer’, from Latin respondere, from re- ‘again’ + spondere ‘to pledge’. The verb dates from the mid 16th cent.